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PROTOEYE investigates the evolution of simple eyes in aquatic invertebrates, focusing on how these organisms respond to light. By examining the neural circuits and behaviors associated with light sensing, the project aims to uncover the principles of sensory system evolution and the origins of vision.
Complex animal eyes evolved many times independently from simpler forms.
As already suggested by Darwin, the path to vision may have led from non-directional to directional light sensing and then to low-resolution spatial vision.
Simple eyes in extant animals show a remarkable diversity of form and function and may hold the key to the origin of eyes and vision.
We do not know why this diversity evolved when the organisms all respond to the same physical cue.
Although we have a detailed molecular…
RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG
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