New primers for the avian SWS1 pigment opsin gene reveal new amino acid configurations in spectral sensitivity tuning sites

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 784-789

  Ödeen, Anders ^a   Håstad, Olle ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Color vision; Sequencing; Ultraviolet sensitive; Violet sensitive

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOWL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; COLOR VISION; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ROD OPSINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWEDEN;

AVES;

EID: 71049147948     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esp060     Document Type: Article

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