"Rod Opsins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Photosensitive proteins expressed in the ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS. They are the protein components of rod photoreceptor pigments such as RHODOPSIN.
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D017299
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.306.466.500 D23.767.930.750.500
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Rod Opsins" by people in Profiles.
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Sensory Drive, Color, and Color Vision. Am Nat. 2017 08; 190(2):157-170.
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Functional preservation and variation in the cone opsin genes of nocturnal tarsiers. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2017 Apr 05; 372(1717).
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Euarchontan Opsin Variation Brings New Focus to Primate Origins. Mol Biol Evol. 2016 Apr; 33(4):1029-41.
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SWS2 visual pigment evolution as a test of historically contingent patterns of plumage color evolution in warblers. Evolution. 2015 Feb; 69(2):341-56.
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Sensory ecology: in sight of speciation. Nature. 2008 Oct 02; 455(7213):601-2.
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Different selective pressures shape the molecular evolution of color vision in chimpanzee and human populations. Mol Biol Evol. 2008 Dec; 25(12):2735-43.
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Rayleigh matches in carriers of inherited color vision defects: the contribution from the third L/M photopigment. Vis Neurosci. 2008 May-Jun; 25(3):455-62.
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Signatures of functional constraint at aye-aye opsin genes: the potential of adaptive color vision in a nocturnal primate. Mol Biol Evol. 2007 Sep; 24(9):1963-70.
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Melanopsin-dependent persistence and photopotentiation of murine pupillary light responses. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2007 Mar; 48(3):1268-75.
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Evidence from opsin genes rejects nocturnality in ancestral primates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Oct 11; 102(41):14712-6.