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Figure 1: (A) View of the Discosoma sp. coral (center) from which the red-emitting fluorescent protein was isolated.

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Tsien, R. Rosy dawn for fluorescent proteins. Nat Biotechnol 17, 956–957 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/13648

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