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The presence of rhodopsin-like protein was detected in the head of the freshwater planarian Dugesia japonica japonica Ichikawa et Kawakatsu by use of anti-frog-rhodopsin rabbit IgG. Two membrane proteins of molecular weights 65000 and 62000 were separated by sodium-dodecyl-sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and found to react with the anti-rhodopsin IgG. The antibody may be useful for monitoring regeneration of the planarian eye.
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Fujita, J., Sakurai, N. & Shinozawa, T. Presence of rhodopsin-like proteins in the planarian head. Hydrobiologia 227, 93–94 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00027587
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