Salamander UV cone pigment: Sequence, expression, and spectral properties

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 393-399

  Ma, Jian Xing ^a   Kono, Masahiro ^b   Xu, Lin ^a   Das, Joydip ^a   Ryan, James C ^a   Starr Hazard III, E ^a   Oprian, Daniel D ^b   Crouch, Rosalie K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbance; Amphibians; Cone; Opsin; Photoreceptor; Retina; Salamander; Ultraviolet; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

11 CIS RETINAL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPITOPE; OPSIN; POLYENE; TRANSDUCIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SALAMANDER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONES (RETINA); COS CELLS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSDUCIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; URODELA;

EID: 0034909258     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523801183057     Document Type: Article

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