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标题：Evolution of Insect Eyes: Tales of Ancient Heritage, Deconstruction, Reconstruction, Remodeling, and Recycling
其他标题：Evolution of Insect Eyes: Tales of Ancient Heritage, Deconstruction, Reconstruction, Remodeling, and Recycling
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作者：Elke K. Buschbeck ; Markus Friedrich
期刊名称：Evolution: Education and Outreach
印刷版ISSN：1936-6434
出版年度：2008
卷号：1
期号：4
页码：448-462
DOI：10.1007/s12052-008-0086-z
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：The visual organs of insects are known for their impressive evolutionary conservation. Compound eyes built from ommatidia with four cone cells are now accepted to date back to the last common ancestor of insects and crustaceans. In species as different as fruit flies and tadpole shrimps, the stepwise cellular patterning steps of the early compound eye exhibit detailed similarities implying 500 million years of developmental conservation. Strikingly, there is also a cryptic diversity of insect visual organs, which gives proof to evolution’s versatility in molding even the most tenacious structures into something new. We explore this fascinating aspect in regard to the structure and function of a variety of different insect eyes. This includes work on the unique compound–single-chamber combination eye of twisted-winged insects and the bizarre evolutionary trajectories of specialized larval eyes in endopterygote insects.
关键词：Evolution of development;Eye development;Visual system;Stemma;Eyelet;Strepsiptera;Tribolium;Drosophila;Thermonectus;Bolwig organ;Mecoptera