Cone topography and spectral sensitivity in two potentially trichromatic marsupials, the quokka (Setonix brachyurus) and quenda (Isoodon obesulus)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1565, 2005, Pages 791-796

  Arrese, Catherine A ^a   Oddy, Alison Y ^a   Runham, Philip B ^a   Hart, Nathan S ^b   Shand, Julia ^a   Hunt, David M ^c   Beazley, Lyn D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cone topography; Marsupial; Opsin; Spectral sensitivity

Indexed keywords

MARSUPIAL; VISION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETER; TOPOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE;

ISOODON OBESULUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; NASO; PRIMATES; SETONIX BRACHYURUS; SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA; TARSIPES ROSTRATUS;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EYE PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EYE PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MARSUPIALIA; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 22844444395     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.3009     Document Type: Article

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