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* Informative coding indels (under development)
* Informative coding indels (under development)
* Intron gain and lost (under development)
* Intron gain and lost (under development)
* Ancestral opsins: lowering the noise level (in progress)
* The photoreceptor fossil record (planned)
* The photoreceptor fossil record (planned)
* Subscholarly opsin books and defective evolutionary inference (planned)
* Subscholarly opsin literature and defective evolutionary inference (planned)
* Opsin evolution: the bottom line (in progress)
* Opsin evolution: the bottom line (in progress)



Revision as of 22:20, 29 November 2007

This cluster of web articles on opsin evolution is updated almost daily. Because those changes are hard to track systematically, this simple article directory and blog of significant changes may be helpful.

Reverse Chronological Update Blog

29 Nov 07: added platynereis story to critters, described second new ciliary opsin
29 Nov 07: added graphics comparing eye systems in deuts and lophs, illustrated everse and inverse eyes
29 Nov 07: added sea urchin opsins to critter discussion, graphic of expression in larva and adult
29 Nov 07: added 6 sea urchin reference opsins by repairing gene models, adding introns, and reclassifying.

28 Nov 07: added Xenoturbella and Convoluta section to basal key critters, no opsins available
28 Nov 07: upgraded key critters with treatment of Saccoglossus
28 Nov 07: found first hemichordate opsin, put methods into detailed tutorial
28 Nov 07: received copywrite permissions for use of handdrawn invertebrate eyes illustrations
28 Nov 07: added jump navigation to key critters as article is getting fairly long

27 Nov 07: added scallop Go opsins from an important historic study
27 Nov 07: reorganized curated sequences into deuterostome, ecdysozoa, lophotrochozoa blocks sorted by receptor type.