Evolution and spectral tuning of visual pigments in birds and mammals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1531, 2009, Pages 2941-2955

  Hunt, David M ^a   Carvalho, Livia S ^a   Cowing, Jill A ^a   Davies, Wayne L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Opsins; Spectral tuning; Visual pigments

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANCESTRY; BIRD; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM; PRIMATE; PROTEIN; RODENT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISUAL CUE;

AVES; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349663499     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0044     Document Type: Review

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