Ancient colour vision: Multiple opsin genes in the ancestral vertebrates

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Collin, Shaun P ^a   Knight, Maree A ^a   Davies, Wayne L ^a   Potter, Ian C ^b   Hunt, David M ^c   Trezise, Ann E O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242456736     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2003.10.044     Document Type: Note

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