The molecular basis of color vision in colorful fish: Four Long Wave-Sensitive (LWS) opsins in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) are defined by amino acid substitutions at key functional sites

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Ward, Matthew N ^a   Churcher, Allison M ^a   Dick, Kevin J ^a   Laver, Chris R J ^a   Owens, Greg L ^a   Polack, Megan D ^a   Ward, Pam R ^a   Breden, Felix ^b   Taylor, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; COLOR VISION; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GUPPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; XIPHOPHORUS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOSAICISM; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CICHLIDAE; FUNDULIDAE; POECILIA; POECILIA RETICULATA; POECILIIDAE; XIPHOPHORUS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; GENE DUPLICATION; MOSAICISM; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OPSIN; PHYLOGENY; POECILIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 50849091595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-210     Document Type: Article

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