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Pinopsin evolved as the ancestral dim-light visual opsin in vertebrates

Pinopsin is the opsin most closely related to vertebrate visual pigments on the phylogenetic tree. This opsin has been discovered among many vertebrates, except mammals and teleosts, and was thought to exclusively function in their brain for extraocular photoreception. Here, we show the possibility...

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Autores principales: Sato, Keita, Yamashita, Takahiro, Kojima, Keiichi, Sakai, Kazumi, Matsutani, Yuki, Yanagawa, Masataka, Yamano, Yumiko, Wada, Akimori, Iwabe, Naoyuki, Ohuchi, Hideyo, Shichida, Yoshinori
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/PMC6167363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30302400
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0164-x