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		Waterluvian on Nov 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tetrachromats: people who see colors invisible to ... Does finding advantageous mutations like this give us a sort of blueprint if one day we wanted to artifically modify genes for these traits?

Merrill on Nov 17, 2019 [–]

Adding genes for more opsins is interesting. However, the regulatory mechanisms for developing the retina and differentiating cone types appear to be quite complex.

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