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The evolution of insect visual opsin genes with specific consideration of the influence of ocelli and life history traits

BACKGROUND: Visual opsins are expressed in the compound eyes and ocelli of insects and enable light detection. Three distinct phylogenetic groups of visual opsins are found in insects, named long (LW), short (SW) and ultraviolet (UV) wavelength sensitive opsins. Recently, the LW group was found to b...

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Autores principales: Guignard, Quentin, Allison, Jeremy D., Slippers, Bernard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8739693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34996358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01960-8