Evolution and mechanism of spectral tuning of Blue-absorbing visual pigments in butterflies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Wakakuwa, Motohiro ^a,b   Terakita, Akihisa ^c   Koyanagi, Mitsumasa ^c   Stavenga, Doekele G ^d   Shichida, Yoshinori ^b   Arikawa, Kentaro ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; PROTEIN PRB; PROTEIN PRV; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SCOTOPSIN; SHORT WAVELENGTH OPSIN; SHORT-WAVELENGTH OPSIN;

ABSORPTION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CELL STRAIN HEK293; COLOR VISION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

APIS MELLIFERA; INVERTEBRATA; LYCAENIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS RAPAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; ROD OPSINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 78649672758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015015     Document Type: Article

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