The rhodopsin-encoding gene of bony fish lacks introns.

doi:10.1016/0378-1119(95)00458-i

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The rhodopsin-encoding gene of bony fish lacks introns.

Gene - 27 Oct 1995

Fitzgibbon J, Hope A, Slobodyanyuk S J, Bellingham J, Bowmaker J K, Hunt D M

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A study of the sequences of the rhodopsin-encoding genes (Rh) in eight fish species from two of the major subdivisions of the teleosts reveals that no introns are present in the coding region. This contrasts with the opsin-encoding genes of all other vertebrates where either four or five introns...

Topics

Amphibians
Anguilla
Animals
Base Sequence
Birds
Cattle
Chickens
DNA Primers
Decapodiformes
Drosophila
Fishes
Genetic Variation
Goldfish
Humans
Introns
Mammals
Mice
Molecular Sequence Data

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