The eye: Monophyletic, polyphyletic or perhaps biphyletic? (multiple letters)

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 244-245

  Meyer Rochow, Victor Benno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

EVOLUTION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; LETTER; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYLOGENY; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0034212584     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(00)02019-9     Document Type: Letter

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