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The crowns have eyes: multiple opsins found in the eyes of the crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci
BACKGROUND: Opsins are G protein-coupled receptors used for both visual and non-visual photoreception, and these proteins evolutionarily date back to the base of the bilaterians. In the current sequencing age, phylogenomic analysis has proven to be a powerful tool, facilitating the increase in knowl...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6233551/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30419810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1276-0 |