Ant opsins: Sequences from the Saharan silver ant and the carpenter ant

Invertebrate Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 323-329

  Popp, Michael P ^a   Grisshammer, Reinhard ^b   Hargrave, Paul A ^a,c   Smith, W Clay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hymenoptera; Rhodopsin; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; OPSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0030089963     PISSN: 13542516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02211912     Document Type: Article

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