Opsin 3 has been the focus of research in Oancea's lab for almost a decade, and the team has discovered that it is present in melanocytes, where it functions in pigmentation, and has developed a ...

To do this, researchers needed a tool to isolate and express a particular insect opsin gene in order to explore its structure and function when expressed in the membranes of cells in cell culture ...

Opsin 3 has been the focus of research in Oancea’s lab for almost a decade, and the team has discovered that it is present in melanocytes, where it functions in pigmentation, and has developed a ...

Now that they have determined opsin 3's role in skin pigmentation, the team is seeking to learn in what other parts of the body opsin 3 is produced and what kind of functions it might have.

MARY W. DONOHUE, KAREN L. CARLETON, THOMAS W. CRONIN, Opsin Expression in the Central Nervous System of the Mantis Shrimp Neogonodactylus oerstedii, Biological Bulletin, Vol. 233, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ...

They are the most abundant proteins in the retina. These light-sensing photopigments are responsible for color vision (cone opsins) and vision in dim light (rhodopsin). While previous studies have ...

DAVIDE FAGGIONATO, JEANNE M. SERB, Strategy to Identify and Test Putative Light-Sensitive Non-Opsin G-Protein-Coupled Receptors, Biological Bulletin, Vol. 233, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: New insights from ...