Genomic and gene regulatory signatures of cryptozoic adaptation: Loss of blue sensitive photoreceptors through expansion of long wavelength-opsin expression in the red flour beetle <it>Tribolium castaneum</it>

Genomic and gene regulatory signatures of cryptozoic adaptation: Loss of blue sensitive photoreceptors through expansion of long wavelength-opsin expression in the red flour beetle <it>Tribolium castaneum</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Recent genome sequence analysis in the red flour beetle <it>Tribolium castaneum </it>indicated that this highly crepuscular animal encodes only two single opsin paralogs: a UV-opsin and a long wavelength (LW)-opsin; howev...

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Main Authors: Cook Tiffany A, McDonald Elizabeth C, Liu Zhenyi, Bao Riyue, Jackowska Magdalena, Friedrich Markus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Zoology
Online Access:http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/4/1/24

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