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Nature Research, Scientific Reports, 1(3), 2013

DOI: 10.1038/srep01432

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Loss of the six3/6 controlling pathways might have resulted in pinhole-eye evolution in Nautilus

Journal article published in 2013 by Atsushi Ogura, Masa-Aki Yoshida, Takeya Moritaki, Yuki Okuda, Jun Sese, Kentaro K. Shimizu ORCID, Konstantinos Sousounis, Panagiotis A. Tsonis
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Abstract

Coleoid cephalopods have an elaborate camera eye whereas nautiloids have primitive pinhole eye without lens and cornea. The Nautilus pinhole eye provides a unique example to explore the module of lens formation and its evolutionary mechanism. Here, we conducted an RNA-seq study of developing eyes of Nautilus and pygmy squid. First, we found that evolutionary distances from the common ancestor to Nautilus or squid are almost the same. Although most upstream eye development controlling genes were expressed in both species, six3/6 that are required for lens formation in vertebrates was not expressed in Nautilus. Furthermore, many downstream target genes of six3/6 including crystallin genes and other lens protein related genes were not expressed in Nautilus. As six3/6 and its controlling pathways are widely conserved among molluscs other than Nautilus, the present data suggest that deregulation of the six3/6 pathway led to the pinhole eye evolution in Nautilus.