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The crowns have eyes: multiple opsins found in the eyes of the crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci

Elijah K. Lowe, Anders L. Garm, Esther Ullrich-Lüter, Claudia Cuomo et al. • BMC Evolutionary Biology (2018)

Abstract Background Opsins are G protein-coupled receptors used for both visual and non-visual photoreception, and these proteins evolutionarily date back to the base of the bilaterians. In the current sequencing age, phylogenomic analysis ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1276-0