Eye Development and Evolution: Cellular and Molecular Events
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Tissues and Organs".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 14356
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular and cellular basis of evolution and development; developmental gene regulatory networks; vertebrate evolution; eye evolution; eye development; molecular evolutionary genetics; marine biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Although significant progress has been made in recent decades in deciphering the cascade of events responsible for eye formation and evolution, these complex processes are far from being clearly delineated. Comparative molecular approaches dissecting developmental mechanisms in different visual systems have played an essential role in elucidating the evolutionary steps through which a light-sensitive pigmented cell on the skin has gone through changes and complexities during the evolution of cones, rods, and the vertebrate retina. More recently, dissecting the developmental programs at single-cell resolution and providing a panel of molecular tools to shed light on the formation of the different eye structures in metazoans have been of primary interest for the scientific community in the field.
This Special Issue aims to summarize current knowledge and to add breakthrough findings that could improve our understanding of the different and progressively more complex visual structures that accompanied metazoan evolution. We are looking for original research and review articles that will contribute to deciphering the molecular and cellular events involved in early eye specification in the anterior brain, its differentiation in functional domains, and its structural organization in different animals. This Special Issue will focus on deep developmental and comparative-evolutionary analysis, and will provide new important information on the molecular and cellular mechanisms responsible for the formation and functioning of complex eye structures. A deeper understanding of the basic and essential mechanisms at the base of the formation and the evolution of different animal eyes may ultimately help to shed light on the emergence of human eye genetic disorders.
We are looking forward to your contributions to this Special Issue.
Dr. Annamaria LocascioDr. Maria I. Arnone
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Light-sensitive pigmented cells
- Evolution of pigmented cells
- Retina cells
- Eye development
- Eye evolution
- Eye specification
- Eye differentiation
- Comparative-evolutionary analysis
- Molecular and cellular mechanisms of eye formation and evolution.
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: The molecular assembly of vision
Authors: Aleotti Alessandra; Kayvan Karimi; Roberto Feuda
Affiliation: Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
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Title: Early diversity in animal photoreceptor cells
Authors: Dan-E. Nilsson
Affiliation: Dept. of Biology, University of Lund
Title: Extraocular Vision in Deuterostomes- Insight From Opsin Expression in the sea urchin Diadema
Authors: Ullrich-Lüter, E.; Zakrzewski, A.; Schneider, D.; Lüter, C.
Affiliation: Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
Title: A new model organism to investigate extraocular photoreception: opsin and retinal gene expression in the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus”
Authors: Zakrzewski A(1), Paganos P(2), Caccavale F(2), Ullrich-Lüter E(1), Lüter C*(1), Arnone MI*(2)
Affiliation: (1) Museum fuer Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany; (2) Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy
Title: Evolution of brachiopod photoreceptors – molecules and functional morphology
Authors: Nina Furchheim(1), Yale Passamaneck(2), Carsten H.C. Müller(3) Carsten Lüter(1)
Affiliation: (1) Museum fuer Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany; (2) US Bureau of Reclamation, Technical Service Centre – Ecological Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., USA (3) University of Greifswald, Zoological Institute, Systematic Zoology, Greifswald, Germany
Title: Transcriptomic insights on phototransduction in fan worms (Sabellida)
Authors: Martin Gühmann <martin.guehmann@bristol.ac.uk> and Michael Bok mikebok@gmail.com
Affiliation: Bristol Univ