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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |