Whole-body photoreceptor networks are independent of 'lenses' in brittle stars

L Sumner-Rooney, IA Rahman… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Photoreception and vision are fundamental aspects of animal sensory biology and ecology,
but important gaps remain in our understanding of these processes in many species. The …

[图书][B] Functional micromorphology of the echinoderm skeleton

P Gorzelak - 2021 - cambridge.org
Echinoderms elaborate a calcite skeleton composed of numerous plates with a distinct
microstructure (stereom) that can be modelled into different shapes thanks to the use of a …

Extraocular vision in echinoderms

L Sumner-Rooney, J Ullrich-Lüter - Distributed Vision: From Simple …, 2023 - Springer
Scientists have observed light sensitivity in a wide range of echinoderms over several
centuries, despite the vast majority of the phylum lacking eyes. Opsin-expressing cells are …

Revisão do gênero Narcissia Gray, 1840 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Ophidiasteridae): da morfologia à taxonomia

RF Cunha - 2019 - teses.usp.br
Desde a revisão taxonômica dos Ophidiasteridae por HL Clark (1921), em que 20 gêneros
foram reconhecidos como válidos, vários novos gêneros e espécies foram incluídos nesta …

Weitschataster intermedius gen. et sp. nov., a goniasterid starfish (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from the Upper Cretaceous of Germany

C Neumann, P Girod - PalZ, 2018 - Springer
Weitschataster intermedius gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Upper Campanian (Upper
Cretaceous) of Hannover (Lower Saxony, N Germany). The new species is characterized by …