High opsin diversity in a non-visual infaunal brittle star

BACKGROUND: In metazoans, opsins are photosensitive proteins involved in both vision and non-visual photoreception. Echinoderms have no well-defined eyes but several opsin genes were found in the purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) genome. Molecular data are lacking for other echinoder...

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Autores principales: Delroisse, Jérôme, Ullrich-Lüter, Esther, Ortega-Martinez, Olga, Dupont, Sam, Arnone, Maria-Ina, Mallefet, Jérôme, Flammang, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25429842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-1035

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25429842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-1035

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