Shedding light on serpent sight: The visual pigments of henophidian snakes

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 7519-7525

  Davies, Wayne L ^a,b   Cowing, Jill A ^a   Bowmaker, James K ^a   Carvalho, Livia S ^a   Gower, David J ^c   Hunt, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYTHON REGIUS; RETINA; RETINA CONE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNAKE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; XENOPELTIS UNICOLOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BOIDAE; CELL LINE; CONE OPSINS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER; ROD OPSINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SNAKES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 67049136252     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0517-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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