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SUBMITTER: Ogura A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3594755 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ogura Atsushi A Yoshida Masa-aki MA Moritaki Takeya T Okuda Yuki Y Sese Jun J Shimizu Kentaro K KK Sousounis Konstantinos K Tsonis Panagiotis A PA
Scientific reports 20130101
Coleoid cephalopods have an elaborate camera eye whereas nautiloids have primitive pinhole eye without lens and cornea. The Nautilus pinhole eye provides a unique example to explore the module of lens formation and its evolutionary mechanism. Here, we conducted an RNA-seq study of developing eyes of Nautilus and pygmy squid. First, we found that evolutionary distances from the common ancestor to Nautilus or squid are almost the same. Although most upstream eye development controlling genes were ...[more]