Visual sensitivities tuned by heterochronic shifts in opsin gene expression

BMC Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Carleton, Karen L ^a   Spady, Tyrone C ^b   Streelman, J Todd ^c   Kidd, Michael R ^d   McFarland, William N ^e   Loew, Ellis R ^f  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

ARTICLE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALAWI; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA CONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TILAPIA; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; COLOR VISION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CICHLIDAE; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PISCES; TILAPIA;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALAWI; MALE; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; OPSIN; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 45849085354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-6-22     Document Type: Article

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