The influence of ontogeny and light environment on the expression of visual pigment opsins in the retina of the black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1495-1503

  Shand, Julia ^a   Davies, Wayne L ^b   Thomas, Nicole ^a   Balmer, Lois ^a   Cowing, Jill A ^b   Pointer, Marie ^b   Carvalho, Livia S ^b   Trezise, Ann E O ^c   Collin, Shaun P ^c   Beazley, Lyn D ^a   Hunt, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cone; Environmental light; Fish; Microspectrophotometry; Photoreceptor; Spectral tuning

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; RETINA; RETINA CONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONES (RETINA); DNA PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACANTHOPAGRUS BUTCHERI; ANIMALIA; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; PISCES;

EID: 46849108758     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.012047     Document Type: Article

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