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Rethinking Opsins

Molecular Biology and Evolution (2022) 39(3)
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac033
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Opsins, the protein moieties of animal visual photo-pigments, have emerged as moonlighting proteins with diverse, light-dependent and-independent physiological functions. This raises the need to revise some basic assumptions concerning opsin expression, structure, classification, and evolution.

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Feuda, R., Menon, A. K., & Göpfert, M. C. (2022). Rethinking Opsins. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac033

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