Cone visual pigments of monotremes: Filling the phylogenetic gap

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 257-264

  Wakefield, Matthew J ^a   Anderson, Mark ^b   Chang, Ellen ^b   Wei, Ke Jun ^c   Kaul, Rajinder ^b   Graves, Jennifer A Marshall ^c   Grützner, Frank ^d   Deeb, Samir S ^b  

^a Australian Government Australian Research Council   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cone pigments; Gene evolution; Locus control region; Marsupials; Monotremes

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA; VISUAL PIGMENT;

BIRD; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHIDNA; FISH; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; LWS GENE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOTREMATE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYLOGENY; PLATYPUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REGULATOR GENE; REPTILE; RETINA CONE; SWS1 GENE; SWS2 GENE;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); DNA FOOTPRINTING; ECHIDNA; EXONS; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PLATYPUS; RETINAL PIGMENTS;

EID: 46749144986     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523808080255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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