Jewel Beetle Opsin Duplication and Divergence Is the Mechanism for Diverse Spectral Sensitivities
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DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msad023
Abstract: Abstract The evolutionary history of visual genes in Coleoptera differs from other well-studied insect orders, such as Lepidoptera and Diptera, as beetles have lost the widely conserved short-wavelength (SW) insect opsin gene that typically underpins… read more here.
Keywords: sensitivity; spectral sensitivities; jewel beetle; opsin duplication ... See more keywords