Press release at @eLife of our paper exploring the mechanism of pressure sensing by UV light sensors in #Platynereis larvae
Luis Alberto Bezares Calderón et al. paper here:
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/94306
Press release at @eLife of our paper exploring the mechanism of pressure sensing by UV light sensors in #Platynereis larvae
Luis Alberto Bezares Calderón et al. paper here:
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/94306
@Sal Thank you! Indeed, the opsin is not the sensor, but we can use a mutation in the opsin gene to disrupt the ciliary superstructure and then we see a phenotype in pressure sensing, and also in UV light sensing, as we previously described: https://elifesciences.org/articles/36440