Genetic analyses of the green visual pigments of rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and rat (Rattus norvegicus)

Gene

Volumn 218, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 103-109

  Radlwimmer, F Bernhard ^a   Yokoyama, Shozo ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Vertebrates; Visual pigment; Wavelength absorption

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; RABBITS; RATS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032544557     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00359-X     Document Type: Article

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