Multiple photopigments from the Mexican blind cavefish, Astyanax fasciatus: A microspectrophotometric study

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-41

  Parry, Juliet W L ^a   Peirson, Stuart N ^b   Wilkens, Horst ^c   Bowmaker, James K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astyanax; Cave fish; Double cone; Hybrid gene; Opsin; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTYANAX FASCIATUS; BREEDING; CELL STRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FISH; HUMAN; HYBRID; HYBRID GENE; HYPOTHESIS; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; CONES (RETINA); DARK ADAPTATION; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; OPSIN; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RODS (RETINA); ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0037222335     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00404-2     Document Type: Article

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