Visual pigments of African cichlid fishes: Evidence for ultraviolet vision from microspectrophotometry and DNA sequences

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 879-890

  Carleton, Karen L ^a   Hárosi, Ferenc I ^b   Kocher, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cichlidae; Microspectrophotometry; Opsin; Ultraviolet vision; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GOLDFISH; MALAWI; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TILAPIA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENOME; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; OPSIN; PERCHES; RETINAL PIGMENTS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VISION;

EID: 0342470959     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00238-2     Document Type: Article

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