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. 2012 Oct 29;109(46):18868–18872. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1204609109

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2.

Synopsis of opsin evolution. This figure represents a gene tree embedded within a species tree illustrating the evolutionary history of the opsins and MLT receptors in Metazoa. It shows that only three duplications and no deletions are necessary to explain opsin evolution.