A group of researchers discovered that the rhodopsin -- a protein in the eye that detects light -- of whale sharks has changed to efficiently detect blue light, which penetrates deep-sea water easily.

Rhodopsin, the light sensor of the mammalian visual system, is embedded in the disc membranes of photoreceptor cells. The image above shows an electrospray mass spectrometer, in a darkened, red-lit ...

A research group including Professors Mitsumasa Koyanagi and Akihisa Terakita of the Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Science has investigated both the genetic information and ...