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A Cambrian origin for vertebrate rods

Vertebrates acquired dim-light vision when an ancestral cone evolved into the rod photoreceptor at an unknown stage preceding the last common ancestor of extant jawed vertebrates (∼420 million years ago Ma). The jawless lampreys provide a unique opportunity to constrain the timing of this advance, a...

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Autores principales: Asteriti, Sabrina, Grillner, Sten, Cangiano, Lorenzo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4502669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26095697
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07166