Aquatic life: Why diurnal frogs retain genes adapted to night vision

Aquatic life: Why diurnal frogs retain genes adapted to night vision

The ancestors of vertebrates had five distinct visual opsins: one rod-specific opsin, RH1, present in a single type of rod; and four cone opsins (LWS, RH2, SWS1 and SWS2 ), …

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