Amy Courtney
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Neurobiologist @ MRC LMB in Cambridge, UK
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Horst Obenhaus
6 months ago
Really cool video.
@ecomorph.bsky.social
guides us through all eyes in the animal kingdom! Cephalopod (especially squid/cuttlefish) eyes are the most beautiful of course.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjm...
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Every Eye In The Animal Kingdom | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjmQooFiXE
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Very excited and proud to finally share this story! ๐ We discovered surprising roles for dopamine and acetylcholine in the Octopus visual systemโฆ
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Novel dopaminergic neurotransmission in the Octopus visual system
Coleoid cephalopods such as the common octopus have a complex visual system, with a camera-type eye and a large optic lobe, that evolved independently from its counterpart in vertebrates. However, the...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.02.646353
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Anna M. Jansson
6 months ago
Cationic DOPAMINE-gated ion channel! In the octopus visual system! Absolutely wild discovery from
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Novel dopaminergic neurotransmission in the Octopus visual system
Coleoid cephalopods such as the common octopus have a complex visual system, with a camera-type eye and a large optic lobe, that evolved independently from its counterpart in vertebrates. However, the...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.646353v1
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Denise Walker
6 months ago
The first Octopus paper from the Schafer lab
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in collaboration with
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lab. ๐dop-gated cation channel ๐Ach-gated anion channel ๐single-cell resolution Ca2+ imaging in optic lobe slices and more! Led by the amazing Amy Courtney
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Novel dopaminergic neurotransmission in the Octopus visual system
Coleoid cephalopods such as the common octopus have a complex visual system, with a camera-type eye and a large optic lobe, that evolved independently from its counterpart in vertebrates. However, the...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.646353v1
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Eve Seuntjens
6 months ago
Very excited to share that we developed a new non-invasive way to predict spawning time in Octopus vulgaris. Until now, we had no means of knowing when a female was going to spawn, which made planning of our experiments very difficult. But now we solved it!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.645890v1
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