Gene expression patterns of novel visual and non-visual opsin families in immature and mature Japanese eel males

This study was carried out to identify and estimate physiological function of a new type of opsin subfamily present in the retina and whole brain tissues of Japanese eel using RNA–Seq transcriptome method. A total of 18 opsin subfamilies were identified through RNA–seq. The visual opsin family inclu...

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Main Authors: Jun-Hwan Byun, Ji-Yeon Hyeon, Eun-Su Kim, Byeong-Hoon Kim, Hiroshi Miyanishi, Hirohiko Kagawa, Yuki Takeuchi, Se-Jae Kim, Akihiro Takemura, Sung-Pyo Hur
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Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2020-02-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/8326.pdf