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The eyespot apparatus (or stigma) is a photoreceptive organelle found in the flagellate or (motile) cells of green algae and other unicellular photosynthetic organisms such as euglenids. It allows the cells to sense light direction and intensity and respond to it, prompting the organism to either swim towards the light (positive phototaxis ...
An eyespot (sometimes ocellus) is an eye-like marking. They are found in butterflies, reptiles, cats, birds and fish. Eyespots could be explained in at least three different ways. They may be a form of mimicry in which a spot on the body of an animal resembles an eye of a different animal, to deceive potential predator or prey species.
Eyespot (mimicry), a color mark that looks somewhat like an eye; Eyespot, a sensory organ of invertebrates; see simple eye in invertebrates; Eyespot, a type of eye in some gastropods, a part of sensory organs of gastropods; Eyespot apparatus, a photoreceptive organelle found in the flagellate (motile) cells unicellular photosynthetic organisms
Eyespot apparatus (microbial photoreceptor), the photoreceptor organelle of a unicellular organism that allows for phototaxis In biochemistry: Photoreceptor protein , a chromoprotein that responds to being exposed to a certain wavelength of light by initiating a signal transduction cascade
Eyespot, photoreceptor used to sense light direction and intensity; Contractile vacuole, regulates the quantity of water inside a cell; Ventral flagellum; Ventral root; Golgi apparatus; modifies proteins and sends them out of the cell; Endoplasmic reticulum, the transport network for molecules going to specific parts of the cell; Phagosome
Ocelli (the plural of ocellus) are a type of simple eye, or eyespot. They are photoreceptive, but very simple; differing from complex eyes with compound lenses, ocelli cannot morph the sensation of light into a complete image, and are utilized to sense movement and the absence and presence of light.
Chlamydomonas is used as a model organism for molecular biology, especially studies of flagellar motility and chloroplast dynamics, biogenesis, and genetics. One of the many striking features of Chlamydomonas is that it contains ion channels (channelrhodopsins) that are directly activated by light.
The thin overgrowth of transparent cells over the eye's aperture, originally formed to prevent damage to the eyespot, allowed the segregated contents of the eye chamber to specialise into a transparent humour that optimised colour filtering, blocked harmful radiation, improved the eye's refractive index, and allowed functionality outside of water.