Abstract
For over a decade, our research group has employed snakes as a model system to investigate the evolutionary strategies of the vertebrate visual system (Bittencourt et al., 2019; Hauzman et al., 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021; Hauzman, 2020; Tashiro et al., 2022). Our work centers on the analysis of opsin genes involved in color vision, as well as the morphological characteristics of the retina ac…