Into the blue: Gene duplication and loss underlie color vision adaptations in a deep-sea chimaera, the elephant shark Callorhinchus milii

Genome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 415-426

  Davies, Wayne L ^a,c   Carvalho, Livia S ^a   Tay, Boon Hui ^b   Brenner, Sydney ^b   Hunt, David M ^a   Venkatesh, Byrappa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHLORIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CALLORHINCHUS MILII; CHIMERA; COLOR VISION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EXON; FISH; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ROD; SHARK; VERTEBRATE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, OCULAR; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COLOR VISION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHARKS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CALLORHINCHUS MILII; CHIMAERIDAE; CHIMAERIFORMES; CHONDRICHTHYES; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 61849161226     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.084509.108     Document Type: Article

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