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- Title
Evolution of the vertebrate eye: opsins, photoreceptors, retina and eye cup.
- Authors
Lamb, Trevor D; Collin, Shaun P; Pugh, Edward N, Jr
- Abstract
Charles Darwin appreciated the conceptual difficulty in accepting that an organ as wonderful as the vertebrate eye could have evolved through natural selection. He reasoned that if appropriate gradations could be found that were useful to the animal and were inherited, then the apparent difficulty would be overcome. Here, we review a wide range of findings that capture glimpses of the gradations that appear to have occurred during eye evolution, and provide a scenario for the unseen steps that have led to the emergence of the vertebrate eye.
- Publication
Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2007, Vol 8, Issue 12, p960
- ISSN
1471-0048
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrn2283