Mix and match color vision: Tuning spectral sensitivity by differential opsin gene expression in Lake Malawi cichlids

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 1734-1739

  Parry, Juliet W L ^a   Carleton, Karen L ^b   Spady, Tyrone ^b   Carboo, Aba ^a   Hunt, David M ^a   Bowmaker, James K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; OPSIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MALAWI; METABOLISM; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CICHLIDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRESH WATER; GENE EXPRESSION; MALAWI; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CICHLIDAE; PERCOMORPHA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 26244445167     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.08.010     Document Type: Article

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