The cone visual pigments of an Australian Marsupial, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii): Sequence, spectral tuning, and evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1642-1649

  Deeb, Samir S ^a   Wakefield, Matthew J ^b,c   Tada, Takashi ^d   Marotte, Lauren ^b   Yokoyama, Shozo ^d   Marshall Graves, Jenny A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cones; Sequence; Visual pigments; Wallaby

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; VISUAL PIGMENT; OPSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; INTRON; MARSUPIAL; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; RETINA CONE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNGULATE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EUTHERIA; MACROPUS EUGENII; METATHERIA; PRIMATES; UNGULATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONES (RETINA); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MACROPODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; RATS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 1542265355     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg181     Document Type: Article

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