Molecular basis of infrared detection by snakes

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7291, 2010, Pages 1006-1011

  Gracheva, Elena O ^a   Ingolia, Nicholas T ^a,b,c   Kelly, Yvonne M ^a   Cordero Morales, Julio F ^a   Hollopeter, Gunther ^a,e   Chesler, Alexander T ^a   Sánchez, Elda E ^d   Perez, John C ^d   Weissman, Jonathan S ^a,b,c   Julius, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL A1;

BIOCHEMISTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY SYSTEM; SNAKE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEATING; INFRARED RADIATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SENSE ORGAN; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SNAKE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; THERMORECEPTOR; VERTEBRATE; VISION;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROTALUS; HOT TEMPERATURE; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNELS; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION;

PYTHONIDAE; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA; VIPERINAE;

EID: 77951114632     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08943     Document Type: Article

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