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Simultaneous Expression of UV and Violet SWS1 Opsins Expands the Visual Palette in a Group of Freshwater Snakes

Snakes are known to express a rod visual opsin and two cone opsins, only (SWS1, LWS), a reduced palette resulting from their supposedly fossorial origins. Dipsadid snakes in the genus Helicops are highly visual predators that successfully invaded freshwater habitats from ancestral terrestrial-only h...

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Autores principales: Hauzman, Einat, Pierotti, Michele E R, Bhattacharyya, Nihar, Tashiro, Juliana H, Yovanovich, Carola A M, Campos, Pollyanna F, Ventura, Dora F, Chang, Belinda S W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8662652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34562092
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab285