The evolution of trichromatic color vision by opsin gene duplication in new world and old world primates

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 629-638

  Dulai, Kanwaljit S ^a   Von Dornum, Miranda ^a   Mollon, John D ^b   Hunt, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COLOR VISION; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MARMOSET; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CEBIDAE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; COLOR PERCEPTION; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; X CHROMOSOME;

ALOUATTA; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; MAMMALIA; MARMOSETS; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES;

EID: 0032766491     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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