Cloning and expression of a Xenopus short wavelength cone pigment

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 209-220

  Starace, D M ^a   Knox, B E ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Cone pigment; Transfection; Visual pigment genes; Wavelength

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COLOR VISION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032144874     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1998.0507     Document Type: Article

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