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ArticleNature communications2025

Light-modulated stem cells in the camera-type eye of an annelid model for adult brain plasticity.

Nadja Milivojev, Federico Scaramuzza, Pedro Ozório Brum, Camila L Velastegui Gamboa, Gabriele Andreatta, Florian Raible, Kristin Tessmar-Raible

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Photoreceptor control ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Nadja MilivojevDepartment of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-0340-4713
Federico ScaramuzzaDepartment of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4360-3883
Pedro Ozório BrumDepartment of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5858-8017
Camila L Velastegui GamboaDepartment of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0340-6247
Gabriele AndreattaDepartment of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8857-7282
Florian RaibleDepartment of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. florian.raible@univie.ac.at.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4515-6485
Kristin Tessmar-RaibleDepartment of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. kristin.tessmar-raible@univie.ac.at.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8038-1741

Funding

Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Alfred-Wegener- Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research) HDPAustrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung) SFB F78EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council) #819952Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) #RGP021/2024Universität Wien (University of Vienna) Platform SinCeReSt
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Camera-type eyes in vertebrates and cephalopods are striking examples of parallel evolution of a complex structure. While comparisons have focused on these two groups, camera-type eyes with likely high functionality are also found in other invertebrate phyla with simpler brains. Employing single-cell RNA sequencing, we identify neurogenic cells in the adult eyes and brain of the marine annelid worm Platynereis dumerilii. Distinct neural stem cells in the camera-type adult eyes, located at the edge of the cup-shaped retina, and adjacent to the glass body/lens, produce radial lines of cells, reminiscent of stem cells in ciliary marginal zones of vertebrate eyes exhibiting life-long growth. Normal proliferation in the eye depends on ambient light, a phenomenon that depends on the integrity of the photoreceptor gene c-opsin1, which is present in emerging rhabdomeric photoreceptors, and impacts on their differentiation. During reproductive maturation, proliferation in the eye as well as the entire brain sharply declines, while cells upregulate molecular characteristics of mammalian adult neural stem cell quiescence. Our data provide insights into the development and modulation of annelid head and brain cells, revealing similarities and differences to vertebrate eye development, neurogenesis and brain plasticity.

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BrainEyeLightNeural Stem CellsNeuronal PlasticityPolychaetaAnimalsCell DifferentiationCell ProliferationNeurogenesisOpsinsPhotoreceptor Cells, InvertebrateRetinaSingle-Cell AnalysisOpsins

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PMID41326338
PMCPMC12669781

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