Photoreceptor genes in a trechine beetle, Trechiama kuznetsovi, living in the upper hypogean zone

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Table 2 Photoreceptor and phototransduction genes detected in the assembled genome and transcripts

Query			T. kuznetsovi
Protein name	Species	Accession no	Genome	Transcripts
Visual opsin proteins
Lw opsin	Pcha	APY20654	yes	yes (+)
Uv opsin	Pcha	APY20653	yes	no^a
Non-visual opsin protein
C-opsin	Tcas	NP_001138950	yes	yes (+)
Phototransduction proteins
Arr1	Tcas	XP_966595	yes	yes (+)
Arr2	Tcas	NP_001164084	yes	yes (+)
Gα49B	Tcas	XP_966311	yes	yes (+ /–)
Gβ76C	Tcas	XP_973851	yes	yes (+ /–)
Gγ30A	Tcas	XP_972123	yes*	yes (+)
Gprk1	Tcas	XP_966480	yes	yes (+ /–)
InaD	Tcas	XP_015837295	yes	yes (+)
NinaA	Tcas	XP_973192	yes	yes (+)
NinaC	Tcas	XP_015835531	yes	yes (+)
NorpA	Tcas	XP_001812780	yes	yes (+ /–)
Pkc53E	Dmel	NP_476682	yes	yes (+)
Rab6	Tcas	XP_972453	yes	yes (+)
RdgC	Tcas	XP_974915	yes	yes (+ /–)
Trp	Tcas	XP_968670	yes	yes (+)
Trpl	Tcas	XP_968598	yes	no^b

‘yes’ indicates that the genes were detected at e-value < 1 × e^–20. ‘yes*’ indicates that the gene was detected at e-value ≥ 1 × e^–20. ‘no’ indicates that the genes were not detected in BLAST-hit sequences. ^aShort read sequences originating from RNA sequencing were mapped to its scaffold, and its transcript was confirmed by RT-PCR. ^bShort read sequences originating from RNA sequencing were mapped to its scaffold, but its transcript was not confirmed by RT-PCR. In BLAST-search for the transcripts, ‘ + ’ and ‘–’ indicate that deleterious mutations (premature stop codons or frameshift mutations) were absent (+) and present (–) in the sequences hit at. ‘ + /–’ indicates that we identified both transcripts without and with deleterious mutations. Species name abbreviation: Pcha Pogonus chalceus, Tcas Tribolium castaneum, Dmel Drosophila melanogaster

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