Drosophila melanogaster rhodopsin Rh7 is a UV-to-visible light sensor with an extraordinarily broad absorption spectrum

A rhodopsin in the brain functions in circadian photoentrainment in Drosophila

(2017) Jinfei D. Ni et al.   NATURE

Conservation, Duplication, and Divergence of Five Opsin Genes in Insect Evolution

(2016) Roberto Feuda et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Rhodopsin 7–The unusual Rhodopsin inDrosophila

(2016) Pingkalai R. Senthilan et al.   PeerJ

Extraordinary diversity of visual opsin genes in dragonflies

(2015) Ryo Futahashi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Evolution of Mammalian Opn5 as a Specialized UV-absorbing Pigment by a Single Amino Acid Mutation

(2014) Takahiro Yamashita et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Rhodopsin coexpression in UV photoreceptors of Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

(2013) X. Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Genome Features of “Dark-Fly”, a Drosophila Line Reared Long-Term in a Dark Environment

(2012) Minako Izutsu et al.   PLoS One

A Non-Mammalian Type Opsin 5 Functions Dually in the Photoreceptive and Non-Photoreceptive Organs of Birds

(2012) Hideyo Ohuchi et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of Eye Morphology and Rhodopsin Expression in the Drosophila melanogaster Species Subgroup

(2012) Nico Posnien et al.   PLoS One

Drosophila visual transduction

(2012) Craig Montell   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Shedding new light on opsin evolution

(2011) M. L. Porter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

WhyDrosophilato Study Phototransduction?

(2010) William L. Pak   JOURNAL OF NEUROGENETICS

Opn5 is a UV-sensitive bistable pigment that couples with Gi subtype of G protein

(2010) T. Yamashita et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Direct Observation of the pH-Dependent Equilibrium between Metarhodopsins I and II and the pH-Independent Interaction of Metarhodopsin II with Transducin C-Terminal Peptide

(2009) Keita Sato et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Phototransduction Motifs and Variations

(2009) King-Wai Yau et al.   CELL

Drosophila's View on Insect Vision

(2009) Alexander Borst   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolution of opsins and phototransduction

(2009) Y. Shichida et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular Evolution of Arthropod Color Vision Deduced from Multiple Opsin Genes of Jumping Spiders

(2008) Mitsumasa Koyanagi et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Expression and comparative characterization of Gq-coupled invertebrate visual pigments and melanopsin

(2008) Akihisa Terakita et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

Crystal structure of squid rhodopsin

(2008) Midori Murakami et al.   NATURE