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@article{Foster1984ARI,
  title={A rhodopsin is the functional photoreceptor for phototaxis in the unicellular eukaryote Chlamydomonas},
  author={Ken W. Foster and Jureepan Saranak and Nayana Patel and Gerald Zarilli and Masami Okabe and Toni Kline and Kōji Nakanishi},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1984},
  volume={311},
  pages={756-759},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4263301}
}

It is shown here that the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas does indeed use a rhodopsin photoreceptor, and that 11-cis-retinal is the natural chromophore and that the protein environment of this retinal is similar to that found in bovine rhodopin, suggesting homology with the r Rhodopsins of higher organisms.

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