A comparative study on the visual adaptations of four species of moray eel

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1099-1108

  Wang, Feng Yu ^a,b   Tang, Meng Yun ^a   Yan, Hong Young ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CELLULAR AND ORGANISMIC BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b Taiwan Ocean Research Institute   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

max; Microspectrophotometry (MSP); Moray eel; Opsin gene; Visual characteristics

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; EEL; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GYMNOTHORAX FAVAGINEUS; GYMNOTHORAX RETICULARIS; INNER NUCLEAR LAYER THICKNESS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPSIN GENE; OUTER NUCLEAR LAYER THICKNESS; PHOTORECEPTOR LAYER THICKNESS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM LAYER THICKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ROD; RH1 GENE; RH2 GENE; RHINOMURAENA QUAESITA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STROPHIDON SATHETE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EELS; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; OPSINS; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955157825     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.02.025     Document Type: Article

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