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The molecular basis for spectral tuning of rod visual pigments in deep-sea fish
1 Oct 2001
Abstract excerpt
Most species of deep-sea fish possess of a rod-only retina with a pigment that is generally shortwave shifted in lambda(max) towards the blue region of the spectrum. In addition, the lambda(max) values of different species tend to cluster at particular points in the spectrum. In this study, the rod opsin gene sequences from 28 deep-sea fish species drawn from seven different Orders are compared. The lambda(max)...
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