The last common ancestor of most bilaterian animals possessed at least 9 opsins
M Desmond Ramirez, Autum N Pairett, M Sabrina Pankey, Jeanne M Serb, Daniel I Speiser, Andrew J Swafford, Todd H. Oakley
The paper estimates the number of opsin paralogs in the last common ancestor of bilaterian animals and Cnidaria + Bilateria using a reconciled opsin phylogeny.
Genome Biology and Evolution · Oct 26, 2016Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology