Genomic and gene regulatory signatures of cryptozoic adaptation: Loss of blue sensitive photoreceptors through expansion of long wavelength-opsin expression in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

BACKGROUND: Recent genome sequence analysis in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum indicated that this highly crepuscular animal encodes only two single opsin paralogs: a UV-opsin and a long wavelength (LW)-opsin; however, these animals do not encode a blue (B)-opsin as most other insects. Here...

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Autores principales: Jackowska, Magdalena, Bao, Riyue, Liu, Zhenyi, McDonald, Elizabeth C, Cook, Tiffany A, Friedrich, Markus
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18154648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-4-24

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