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SUBMITTER: Hayakawa S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4348419 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hayakawa Shiho S Takaku Yasuharu Y Hwang Jung Shan JS Horiguchi Takeo T Suga Hiroshi H Gehring Walter W Ikeo Kazuho K Gojobori Takashi T
PloS one 20150303 3
The ocelloid is an extraordinary eyespot organelle found only in the dinoflagellate family Warnowiaceae. It contains retina- and lens-like structures called the retinal body and the hyalosome. The ocelloid has been an evolutionary enigma because of its remarkable resemblance to the multicellular camera-type eye. To determine if the ocelloid is functionally photoreceptive, we investigated the warnowiid dinoflagellate Erythropsidinium. Here, we show that the morphology of the retinal body changed ...[more]