Sentences with phrase «visual pigment genes»
The team discovered that visual pigment genes have changed substantially during snake evolution, including many changes to the wavelengths of light that the pigments are sensitive to.
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Humans have genes that code for three different types of visual pigments, called opsins.
The team, which included Museum researchers Dr Bruno Simões and Filipa Sampaio, studied the genes involved in producing these visual pigments in 69 species of snake.