Vertebrate eye (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Vertebrate eye

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UC San Diego scientists have traced the origin of a unique protein considered key to the vertebrate’s camera-like vision back 500 million years to foreign bacterial sources.

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Jenessa Daugherty

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Must be used in conjunction with PNAS paper on vertebrate eye innovation.

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