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We thank our postdoc Natalie Roberts for leading a stimulating lab-meeting today on #colour #vision and #opsin genes in damselflies and other insects for members of #SvenssonLab and #TsuboiLab.
In the evening some of the lab members went to Café Ariman in Lund and later to see the movie "The Apprentice" at #Kino in #Lund
Just One Molecule Allows Us to See Millions More Colors Than Our Pets
https://www.sciencealert.com/just-one-molecule-allows-us-to-see-millions-more-colors-than-our-pets #color #vision #red #opsin #thyroid #RetinoicAcid
It's pretty hard to imagine the world through someone…
www.sciencealert.comIf you too like #opsin evolution, check our new #bioinformatics tool #Matreex to visualize the evolution of complex gene families, illustrated by the evolution of vertebrate red-sensitive visual opsins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.18.529053v1.full #SMBE2023
Marjorie Liénard: method to express invertebrate opsin proteins in vitro, allowing to show spectral shifts in opsins in butterflies, with notably 2 paralogs of LW providing differentiation in function between the dorsal and ventral parts of the eye https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2008986118 #SMBE2023 #opsin #GeneDuplication #paralog
Our favourite #Platynereis #opsin now in the mammalian brain as a new #optogenetic tool!
"Here we ... found that the Platynereis dumerilii ciliary opsin ... is an efficient, versatile, light-activated bistable GPCR that can suppress synaptic transmission in mammalian neurons with high temporal precision in-vivo "
#Matreex can be used for teaching, as here with the classical example of opsin evolution: notice the parallele loss of blue- and green-sensitive opsins in snakes and mammals, the duplications in frugivorous old-world primates, and the duplications and losses in fishes according to habitat. #opsin #MolecularEvolution
My first, first-author publication now has it's first citation!
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=14861386371166261558
Hot off the press! Move over deep homology, what about ‘deep diversity’? We review the vast variation of visual system development and physiology.
Understanding the molecular underpinnings of the evolution…
www.mdpi.com Jack Kruse Retweeted:
Nature Rev Neurosci @NatRevNeurosci
A step function #opsin with extreme light sensitivity has been developed that can be activated with an external light source #ReserachHighlight
https://go.nature.com/36qr17x https://www.twitter.com/DrJackKruse/status/1265756916686307328
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