Carotenoid and retinoid - Two pigments in a gecko eye lens

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 105-112

  Röll, Beate ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotenoid; Eye lens; Gekkonidae; Lens crystallins; Reptilia; Retinoid; Ultraviolet filter

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; CRYSTALLIN; DEHYDRORETINOL; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; PIGMENT; RETINOID;

ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; LENS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VERTEBRATE;

AVES; GEKKO; GEKKONIDAE; PHELSUMA EDWARDNEWTONII; QUEDENFELDTIA; QUEDENFELDTIA TRACHYBLEPHARUS; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 17144468765     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00165-8     Document Type: Article

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