Takahiro Yamashita

Extraocular Photoreception Controls nocturnal hatching via a neuroendocrine pathway in False Clownfish

This study shows that extraocular photoreception controls hatching timing in false clownfish via a TRH-Ca2+-hatching enzyme neuroendocrine pathway, with sensitivity to green light.

Self-regenerating opsin from reef-building coral

This paper identifies a coral opsin, AtAntho2c, that can autonomously regenerate its inactive state through thermal isomerization of retinal, enabling repeated light responses without exogenous retinal.

How opsins diversified after the teleost whole-genome duplication: Insights from two parietopsins of the red piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri

The paper examines opsin diversification after the teleost whole-genome duplication by analyzing parietopsin paralogs in red piranha and other species, finding slight spectral differences and co-expression patterns.

A key spectral tuning site of UV-sensitive vertebrate non-visual opsin Opn5

This study identifies Lys91 as the key residue determining UV sensitivity in vertebrate Opn5, showing its role in spectral tuning and retinal isomer binding.