Visual pigments and oil droplets in the retina of a passerine bird, the canary Serinus canaria: Microspectrophotometry and opsin sequences

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2801-2815

  Das, Debipriya ^a   Wilkie, Susan E ^a   Hunt, David M ^a   Bowmaker, James K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bird; Cone; Opsin; Spectral tuning; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FAT DROPLET; OIL; OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CANARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; LENS; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONES (RETINA); DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; OILS; OPSIN; OPTICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RODS (RETINA); SONGBIRDS;

EID: 0032969333     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00023-1     Document Type: Article

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