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Retention and losses of ultraviolet-sensitive visual pigments in bats

Ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive visual pigment and its corresponding ability for UV vision was retained in early mammals from their common ancestry with sauropsids. Subsequently, UV-sensitive pigments, encoded by the short wavelength-sensitive 1 (SWS1) opsin gene, were converted to violet sensitivity or...

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Autores principales: Li, Longfei, Chi, Hai, Liu, Haonan, Xia, Yu, Irwin, David M., Zhang, Shuyi, Liu, Yang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30093712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29646-6

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