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Eyes viewed from the skin

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  • Heinz Arnheiter

    (Heinz Arnheiter is in the Laboratory of Developmental Neurogenetics, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

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The skin of many animals includes cells that respond to light by dispersing or aggregating granules within them. A study of such cells in frog skin now delivers the finding that they express a molecule, melanopsin, which is similar to the light-sensitive rhodopsins in eyes. In itself, that is not surprising. What is unexpected is that melanopsin is more closely related to invertebrate than to vertebrate rhodopsins, including that in the frog's own eyes. In evolutionary terms, then, this observation throws up all sorts of tantalizing questions.

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  • Heinz Arnheiter, 1998. "Eyes viewed from the skin," Nature, Nature, vol. 391(6668), pages 632-633, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:391:y:1998:i:6668:d:10.1038_35487
    DOI: 10.1038/35487
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