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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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Autores principales: Lowe, Elijah K., Garm, Anders L., Ullrich-Lüter, Esther, Cuomo, Claudia, Arnone, Maria I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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