Opsin Genes
Three cone opsin genes determine the properties of the visual spectra in the Japanese anchovy, Engraulis japonicus (Engraulidae, Teleostei)
... green opsin genes in the ...red opsin probe preparation, 428bp of the coding region was generated using the RED-Fw2 and RED-RvA primer set and the initial PCR product amplified with the RED-Fw1 and ...
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Molecular genetics of the middlewave and longwave sensitive opsin genes of higher primates
... the opsin photopigments of the OWM and apes are shown in Table 4, and silent nucleotide substitutions are shown in Table ...MW opsin genes of the monkeys, chimpanzee, and gorilla are highly ...
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Temporal and spatial changes in the expression pattern of multiple red and green subtype opsin genes during zebrafish development
... of opsin types or chromophore ...M/LWS opsin genes, occurrence of opsin subtypes is characteristic of fish, and the resulting variations of opsin repertoire among species should be ...
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Genomic organization, evolution, and expression of photoprotein and opsin genes in Mnemiopsis leidyi: a new view of ctenophore photocytes
... photoproteins genes in Mnemiopsis containing a total of at least 10 full-length genes with high sequence conservation; we have also shown that they are likely maintained through purifying selection and ...
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Variable rates of evolution among Drosophila opsin genes.
... Rates and patterns of nucleotide substitution are compared among the different opsin loci, and two factors that are thought to affect rates of synonymous nucleotide sub[r] ...
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Functional opsin retrogene in nocturnal moth
... Additional file 1: Materials and methods Detailed description of materials and methods used in RNA-seq and PCR amplification. Results Description of the results in RNA-seq and PCR amplification. Table S1. Summary of the ...
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The lycaenid butterfly Polyommatus icarus uses a duplicated blue opsin to see green
... LW opsin gene tree was reconstructed using the first and second nucleotide positions (742 ...B opsin gene tree was reconstructed using all nucleotide positions (1055 ...
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Encephalic photoreception and phototactic response in the troglobiont Somalian blind cavefish Phreatichthys andruzzii
... It has been shown that epigean morphs of A. mexicanus possess an intact rod opsin gene (Yokoyama et al., 1995), and microspectrophotometric study of F2 individuals derived from a hypogean ⫻ epigean background ...
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Euarchontan opsin variation brings new focus to primate origins
... We prepared an Illumina sequencing library (Meyer and Kircher 2010), and sequenced it to low (~3–5x) coverage on a single lane of an Illumina HiSeq 2000 at the Penn State Genomics Core Facility. After quality control ...
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Gene Duplication and Spectral Diversification of Cone Visual Pigments of Zebrafish
... rod opsin gene, RH1, were considered to have occurred in salmonids, goldfish, and out of the scale and were not included in the ...SWS2 opsin genes in the genome (Fig- which SWS1 expression level was ...
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Beauty in the eye of the beholder: the two blue opsins of lycaenid butterflies and the opsin gene driven evolution of sexually dimorphic eyes
... LW opsin genes, which were present in the ancestor of all lepidopterans (Briscoe et ...eye opsin gene have occurred (Briscoe, 1998; Kitamoto et ...blue opsin gene has been reported (Arikawa et ...
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Visual sensitivities tuned by heterochronic shifts in opsin gene expression
... cone opsin genes ...RH2a opsin genes (where RH2a includes both RH2a α and RH2a β ...the opsin genes during some developmental stage. The genes utilized by lake cichlids ...
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Intra retinal variation of opsin gene expression in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
... LWS genes (Hoffmann et ...cone opsin genes are expressed simultaneously in the retinas of many adult male and female Cumaná ...these genes are ...
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The opsin repertoire of the European lancelet: a window into light detection in a basal chordate
... the opsin, and the chromophore ...of opsin diversity, opsin classification and interfamily relationships have been the matter of long-standing ...complete opsin repertoire. We investigated the ...
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Genomic and gene regulatory signatures of cryptozoic adaptation: Loss of blue sensitive photoreceptors through expansion of long wavelength-opsin expression in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
... of opsin expression, some of which are likely conserved ...LW-opsin genes in R8 cells. Interestingly, LW-opsin expression is the "default" R8 opsin state, whereas B-opsin ...
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Short term colour vision plasticity on the reef: changes in opsin expression under varying light conditions differ between ecologically distinct fish species
... on genes encoding opsin, the protein component of the photopigment, can influence the spectral sensitivity of ...photoreceptors. Opsin genes are known to respond to environmental conditions on ...
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Cone like rhodopsin expressed in the all cone retina of the colubrid pine snake as a potential adaptation to diurnality
... Colubridae is the largest and most diverse family of snakes, with visual systems that reflect this diversity, encompassing a variety of retinal photoreceptor organizations. The transmutation theory proposed by Walls ...
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Green-sensitive opsin is the photoreceptor for photic entrainment of an insect circadian clock
... of opsin genes in the adult cricket compound eye at ZT ...each opsin genes with intact crickets, and those treated with DsRed2 RNAi and single and double RNAi of opsin ...
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The Sinocyclocheilus cavefish genome provides insights into cave adaptation
... (e.g. opsin genes), pseudogenes (e.g. crystallin genes), mutations ...melanogenesis-related genes), deletions (e.g. scale-related genes) and down-regulation ...pathway genes), ...
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Three opsin encoding cDNAS from the compound eye of Manduca sexta
... chromophore – is a challenging problem of current interest. The basis of blue-shifted spectra is particularly uncertain. Recent models and crystallographic data (Baldwin, 1993; Schertler et al. 1993; Schertler and ...
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