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SUBMITTER: Musilova Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6628886 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Musilova Zuzana Z Cortesi Fabio F Matschiner Michael M Davies Wayne I L WIL Patel Jagdish Suresh JS Stieb Sara M SM de Busserolles Fanny F Malmstrøm Martin M Tørresen Ole K OK Brown Celeste J CJ Mountford Jessica K JK Hanel Reinhold R Stenkamp Deborah L DL Jakobsen Kjetill S KS Carleton Karen L KL Jentoft Sissel S Marshall Justin J Salzburger Walter W
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20190501 6440
Vertebrate vision is accomplished through light-sensitive photopigments consisting of an opsin protein bound to a chromophore. In dim light, vertebrates generally rely on a single rod opsin [rhodopsin 1 (RH1)] for obtaining visual information. By inspecting 101 fish genomes, we found that three deep-sea teleost lineages have independently expanded their <i>RH1</i> gene repertoires. Among these, the silver spinyfin (<i>Diretmus argenteus</i>) stands out as having the highest number of visual opsi ...[more]