BIOL4397 - Evolution of Development

 Lecture 24 - Evolution of the Eye

Slides [pdf]

Required Reading

  • Arendt D et al (2004) Ciliary photoreceptors with a vertebrate-type opsin in an invertebrate brain Science 306: 869-71. [pdf]

Recommended Reading
  • Gehring WJ (2002) The genetic control of eye development and its implications for the evolution of the various eye-types. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 46: 65-73. [pdf]

  • Pichaud F & Desplan C (2002) Pax genes and eye organogenesis. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 12: 430-4. [pdf]