#opsins — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #opsins, aggregated by home.social.
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Kłodawska et al. examine visual opsin genes sequences and expression in Bermin crater lake cichlids, recovering little coding sequence divergence but high variation in expression profile, suggesting plasticity at the onset of sensory evolution.
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Our recent article on non-visual opsins in lizards - which made the May cover - is the focus of a new Highlight.
"Highlight: More Than Meets the Eye—Nonvisual Opsins Are Crucial for Light-Sensing in Vertebrates"
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf075
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The tuatara and many lizards possess a parietal eye, where non-visual opsins are expressed. Romero & @fsjsouza.bsky.social compared 60+ genomes to study the evolution of non-visual opsins, suggesting a functional role associated with the parietal eye.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf058
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Interested in understanding the #evolution of multifunctionality in #opsins ?
New 3yr postdoc position available in the Feuda lab at the Neurogenetics group in University of Leicester. This project is funded by the collaborative Human Frontier Science Program by @robertofeuda
Please boost and contact Roberto directly via [email protected] for informal enquiries