A new form of inherited red-blindness identified in zebrafish

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4236-4242

  Brockerhoff, Susan E ^a,b   Hurley, James B ^b   Niemi, Gregory A ^b   Dowling, John E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

behavior; mutant; red opsin; retina; vision; zebrafish

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COLOR BLINDNESS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 0030969470     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-11-04236.1997     Document Type: Article

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