{"id":2473,"date":"2013-04-12T10:45:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T10:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2019-07-13T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T13:29:25","slug":"science-review-continuum-of-senses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/12\/science-review-continuum-of-senses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Review: Continuum of senses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A <em><a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/339\/6121\/754\">News Focus<\/a><\/em> covering a trend identified at a conference: opsins (light-responsive GPCRs) are found in myriad tissues, including\u00a0primitive\u00a0phylogenies (incl. sea-urchins and jelly-fish). These researches have led to an increased appreciation of the variety of roles opsins may serve:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Light-responsive roles (cf. vision) (e.g. modulating likelihood of stinging cells firing in hydra).<\/li>\n<li>Part of multi-modal sensory cells (i.e. that integrate factors including light., e.g. and taste to provide a decision making that is less defined than any clearly delineated &#8220;sense&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>Suggestion that they may serve light-independent functions, as in mechanosensation required for hearing in Drosophila. [without further evidence, the fact of this particular case being &#8220;light-independent&#8221; seems presumptuous] or for Drosophila larvae heat-preference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The most interesting thing to me, here, is the <strong>range of the continuum of a sense<\/strong>. Consider the range between an opsin in a non-dedicated cell and an entire visual system.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Consider a human\u00a0visual system, that includes multiple cortical visual areas, multi-sensory integration, specialized receptor cells per orientation, wavelength, etc. Note especially how paltry this limited summary is.<\/li>\n<li>Consider\u00a0opsins in non-specialized cells, whether that be some sort of multi-sensory cell (e.g. that qualifies the environment for the organism) or as an input-modifier to some other specialized cell (e.g. to alter the likelihood of activation).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To do here: elaborate on the concept of &#8220;continuum of a sense&#8221; (and: does evolution act on Ideas?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A News Focus covering a trend identified at a conference: opsins (light-responsive GPCRs) are found in myriad tissues, including\u00a0primitive\u00a0phylogenies (incl. sea-urchins and jelly-fish). These researches have led to an increased appreciation of the variety of roles opsins may serve: Light-responsive roles (cf. vision) (e.g. modulating likelihood of stinging cells firing in hydra). Part of multi-modal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,242,16,17],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-evernote-entries","category-science","category-science-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2445,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/22\/opsins-not-just-for-eyes-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2473,"position":0},"title":"Science Review: Opsins &#8211; Not Just for Eyes","author":"Pala","date":"April 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A News Focus covering a trend identified at a conference: opsins (light-responsive GPCRs) are found in myriad tissues, including\u00a0primitive\u00a0phylogenies (incl. sea-urchins and jellyfish). 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