Eye Evolution: The Blurry Beginning

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Nilsson, Dan E ^a   Arendt, Detlev ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT SURVEY; VISION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 57049111553     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.025     Document Type: Short Survey

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