Molecular evolution of retinal and nonretinal opsins

Genes to Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 787-794

  Yokoyama, Shozo ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RETINA; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VISION;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPSIN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RETINA; VISION;

EID: 0030227075     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1996.d01-273.x     Document Type: Article

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