1. Developmental Biology Unit, Faculty of Biology, BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies and FRIAS Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany;2. Program in Genomics of Differentiation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Abstract:
Highlights? Larvae aggregate in the light even after loss of retinal and pineal photoreception ? Dark-driven photokinesis is absent in eyeless otpa mutant larvae ? The melanopsin opn4a is coexpressed with otpa and selectively lost in otp mutants ? otpa neurons of the preoptic area are deep brain photoreceptors for dark photokinesis