Origin of the vertebrate visual cycle

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 242-247

  Takimoto, Noriko ^a   Kusakabe, Takehiro ^a   Tsuda, Motoyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTEIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; BRAIN; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EVOLUTION; EYE PROTEINS; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL PIGMENTS; VERTEBRATES;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CEPHALOPODA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34247243656     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/2006-06-30-IR-957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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