Ancient whale rhodopsin reconstructs dim-light vision over a major evolutionary transition: Implications for ancestral diving behavior
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2118145119
Abstract: Significance Many cetacean species can dive to extraordinary depths on a single breath, but the evolutionary origins of deep-sea foraging in ancestral cetaceans remain unclear. We present a resurrected ancestral cetacean visual protein (rhodopsin) to… read more here.
Keywords: ancient whale; rhodopsin; whale rhodopsin; diving behavior ... See more keywords