Molecular evidence for color discrimination in the Atlantic sand fiddler crab, Uca pugilator

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 4240-4248

  Rajkumar, Premraj ^a   Rollmann, Stephanie M ^a   Cook, Tiffany A ^b   Layne, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Fiddler crab; Photoreceptor; Rhodopsin; Uca pugilator; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; COLOR VISION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; COLOR; COLOR VISION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSINS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARTHROPODA; BRACHYURAN; CELUCA PUGILATOR; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 78650051079     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.051011     Document Type: Article

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