Blue- and green-absorbing visual pigments of Drosophila: Ectopic expression and physiological characterization of the R8 photoreceptor cell- specific Rh5 and Rh6 rhodopsins

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 10716-10726

  Salcedo, Ernesto ^a,c   Huber, Armin ^b   Henrich, Stefan ^b   Chadwell, Linda V ^a   Chou, Wen Hai ^a   Paulsen, Reinhard ^b   Britt, Steven G ^a,c  

^a University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue absorbing rhodopsin; Drosophila melanogaster; Fruit fly; Green absorbing rhodopsin; Protein expression; Rhodopsin; Spectral tuning; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0033573379     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-24-10716.1999     Document Type: Article

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