DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: Worm's Light-Sensing Proteins Suggest Eye's Single Origin

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Science 29 October 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5697, pp. 796 - 797
DOI: 10.1126/science.306.5697.796a

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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Worm's Light-Sensing Proteins Suggest Eye's Single Origin

Elizabeth Pennisi

New data reported on page 869 showing unexpected similarities between photoreceptors of a marine worm and humans suggest that even the earliest animals had the makings of both vertebrate and invertebrate visual systems.

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