Publication at Faculty of Science |
2009
Abstract
Animal eyes can vary in complexity ranging from a single photoreceptor cell shaded by a pigment cell to elaborate arrays of these basic units, which allow image formation in compound eyes of insects or camera-type eyes of vertebrates. The evolution of the eye requires involvement of several distinct components-photoreceptors, screening pigment and genes orchestrating their proper temporal and spatial organization.
Analysis of particular genetic and biochemical components shows that many evolutionary processes have participated in eye evolution.