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SUBMITTER: Sato K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6167363 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sato Keita K Yamashita Takahiro T Kojima Keiichi K Sakai Kazumi K Matsutani Yuki Y Yanagawa Masataka M Yamano Yumiko Y Wada Akimori A Iwabe Naoyuki N Ohuchi Hideyo H Shichida Yoshinori Y
Communications biology 20181001
Pinopsin is the opsin most closely related to vertebrate visual pigments on the phylogenetic tree. This opsin has been discovered among many vertebrates, except mammals and teleosts, and was thought to exclusively function in their brain for extraocular photoreception. Here, we show the possibility that pinopsin also contributes to scotopic vision in some vertebrate species. Pinopsin is distributed in the retina of non-teleost fishes and frogs, especially in their rod photoreceptor cells, in add ...[more]