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Paralogous origin of the red- and green-sensitive visual pigment genes in vertebrates.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 May 1993
Yokoyama S, Starmer W T, Yokoyama R
Abstract excerpt
The nucleotide sequence of the red-sensitive visual pigment gene, R007Af, in the fish Astyanax fasciatus, from the initiation codon to the stop codon of this gene, including introns, is 1,592 bp, making it the shortest visual pigment gene known in vertebrates. Analysis of this and other homologous sequence data suggests that vertebrates initially had two duplicate genes and that each ancestor of Astyanax, human,...
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