Evolution of photosensory pineal organs in new light: the fate of neuroendocrine photoreceptors
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...Owing to a developmental re-programming [8, 62], lateral eyes function as inputs for the discrimination of shape and colour of objects....
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...This is not surprising from a phylogenetic standpoint, as the eyes share their diencephalic origin with the pineal gland [8, 62]....
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...In anamniotes, like fish and amphibians, pinealocytes with retinal cone photoreceptor-like properties predominate, while in sauropsids, like reptiles and birds, photoreceptor properties are reduced [62]....
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...The following description for Eptatretus species is based largely on the reports of Holmberg (1971, 1977), Fernholm and Holmberg (1975) and Locket and Jorgensen (1998)....
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...The following description for Eptatretus species is based largely on the reports of Holmberg (1971, 1977), Fernholm and Holmberg (1975) and Locket and Jorgensen (1998). General features of the hagfish eye....
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