Reef-building coral (IMAGE)

Osaka Metropolitan University

Reef-building coral

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Unlike typical opsins, the anthozoan-specific opsin II group (ASO-II opsins) in reef-building corals use chloride ions (Cl⁻) instead of amino acids as counterions.

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Osaka Metropolitan University

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