Gaspar Jekely
Professor at the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), University of Heidelberg, Germany
and at the
Living Systems Institute (LSI), University of Exeter, UK. #neuroscience of marine larvae, #connectomics, #cilia, ciliary swimming, cell and nervous system #evolution, #GPCR, #neuropeptides, #Platynereis, #Trichoplax, #Nematostella, #Schistosoma, #coral #neuroscience #rstat #evolution #fedi22
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4·8 months ago@Sal Thank you! Indeed, the opsin is not the sensor, but we can use a mutation in the opsin gene to disrupt the ciliary superstructure and then we see a phenotype in pressure sensing, and also in UV light sensing, as we previously described: https://elifesciences.org/articles/36440
@dpunked Thank you! A bryozoan larva would be nice! Maybe one day we will get there…
@Sedathems it’s about a polyclad flatworm, related to this beauty
https://www.reeflex.net/tiere/12181_Prostheceraeus_floridanus.htm