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A fish eye out of water: ten visual opsins in the four-eyed fish, Anableps anableps.
PloS one - 24 Jun 2009
Owens Gregory L, Windsor Diana J, Mui Justin, Taylor John S
Abstract excerpt
The "four-eyed" fish Anableps anableps has numerous morphological adaptations that enable above and below-water vision. Here, as the first step in our efforts to identify molecular adaptations for aerial and aquatic vision in this species, we describe the A. anableps visual opsin repertoire. We used PCR, cloning, and sequencing to survey cDNA using unique primers designed to amplify eight sequences from five...
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