Visual pigments in a living fossil, the Australian lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bailes, Helena J ^a,b   Davies, Wayne L ^a,c   Trezise, Ann E O ^a   Collin, Shaun P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FISH; LIVING FOSSIL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEOCERATODUS FORSTERI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; TELEOST; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; FOSSIL; GENETICS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMPHIBIA; CERATODONTIDAE; COELACANTHIDAE; NEOCERATODUS FORSTERI; TELEOSTEI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; FISHES; FOSSILS; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 38149054791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-200     Document Type: Article

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