Not all butterfly eyes are created equal: Rhodopsin absorption spectra, molecular identification, and localization of ultraviolet-, blue-, and green-sensitive rhodopsin-encoding mRNAs in the retina of Vanessa cardui

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 458, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 334-349

  Briscoe, Adriana D ^a   Bernard, Gary D ^b   Szeto, Allan S ^c   Nagy, Lisa M ^c   White, Richard H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae; Photoreceptor; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; OPSIN; RHODOPSIN;

ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CALCULATION; COLOR VISION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VANESSA CARDUI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; RHODOPSIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0037436886     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10582     Document Type: Article

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