The 'five-sites' rule and the evolution of red and green color vision in mammals

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 560-567

  Yokoyama, Shozo ^a   Bernhard Radlwimmer, F ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral sequences; Color vision; Mammals; Opsin; Visual pigments

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; CARNIVORE; COLOR VISION; LAGOMORPH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYLOGENY; RODENT;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAPRA HIRCUS; CAVIA PROCELLUS; FELIS CATUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS;

EID: 2642608655     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025956     Document Type: Article

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