Short wavelength-sensitive opsins from the Saharan silver and carpenter ants

Invertebrate Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-56

  Smith, W Clay ^a   Ayers, Donald M ^a   Popp, Michael P ^a   Hargrave, Paul A ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hymenoptera; Rhodopsin; Ultraviolet; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OPSIN; PHENYLALANINE; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANT; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPSIN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VISION;

EID: 0031396901     PISSN: 13542516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02481714     Document Type: Article

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