Cephalopod vision: How to build a better eye

Paul S Katz; Deirdre C Lyons

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.054

Cephalopod vision: How to build a better eye

Curr Biol. 2023 Jan 9;33(1):R27-R30. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.054.

Authors

Paul S Katz¹, Deirdre C Lyons²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Neuroscience and Behavior Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 36626860
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.054

Abstract

Cephalopods' eyes superficially resemble our own, but because of their evolutionary and developmental history, the photoreceptors face forward, with the downstream neural circuitry in the brain, not the retina. Two new papers uncover molecular and developmental mechanisms underlying cephalopod visual development.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution
Cephalopoda*
Photoreceptor Cells
Retina
Vision, Ocular

Grants and funding

U01 NS123972/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States