LOC407755

Summary

Gene Symbol: LOC407755
Description: parapinopsin
Species: western clawed frog

Top Publications

  1. ncbi Bistable UV pigment in the lamprey pineal
    Mitsumasa Koyanagi
    Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Kyoto 606 8502 Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:6687-91. 2004

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  1. ncbi Bistable UV pigment in the lamprey pineal
    Mitsumasa Koyanagi
    Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Kyoto 606 8502 Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:6687-91. 2004
    ..Furthermore, we isolated the parapinopsin homologues from fish and frog pineal complexes that exhibit UV sensitivity, suggesting that parapinopsin is a common molecular basis for pineal UV reception in the vertebrate...