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Nematostella vectensis exemplifies the exceptional expansion and diversity of opsins in the eyeless Hexacorallia

BACKGROUND: Opsins are the primary proteins responsible for light detection in animals. Cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones, corals) have diverse visual systems that have evolved in parallel with bilaterians (squid, flies, fish) for hundreds of millions of years. Medusozoans (e.g., jellyfish, hydroi...

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Autores principales: McCulloch, Kyle J., Babonis, Leslie S., Liu, Alicia, Daly, Christina M., Martindale, Mark Q., Koenig, Kristen M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10512536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37735470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13227-023-00218-8