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From: Evolutionary history of the medaka long-wavelength sensitive genes and effects of artificial regression by gene loss on behavioural photosensitivity

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The medaka LWSa and LWSb loci. (a) Orthologous comparison between O. latipes (the Hd-rR inbred strain) and O. sakaizumii (the HNI inbred strain). Outputs of the mVISTA program using genomic sequences covering the LWSa and LWSb loci are shown at the top and bottom. The two bold black horizontal lines in the middle represent the genomic sequences, and boxes show the positions of exons: light blue, UTR; purple, coding region. Dotted lines indicate relatively large insertions/deletions. The positions of the microRNA (miR-726) gene, which is co-expressed with LWSa24, are shown by arrows. The regions highlighted in yellow and green were used for paralogous comparison in (b). (b) Paralogous comparison of LWSa and LWSb in O. latipes. The mVISTA outputs are shown at the top and bottom. The coding region, the 5′/3′ UTRs, a part of the 5′-upstream region, and the 2nd–5th introns are highly conserved. In spite of the conservation, the CNR-B and CNR-C sequences are shown to be dispensable for expressing LWSa13.

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