Coexpression of spectrally distinct rhodopsins in Aedes aegypti r7 photoreceptors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Hu, Xiaobang ^a,b   Whaley, Michelle A ^a   Stein, Michelle M ^a   Mitchell, Bronwen E ^a   O'Tousa, Joseph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTORECEPTOR R7; PHOTORECEPTOR R8; PROTEIN AAOP2; PROTEIN AAOP9; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT; ISOPROTEIN;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OMMATIDIA; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; RETINA CELL; RHABDOMERE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISION; AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RETINA; RHODOPSIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 79961200822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023121     Document Type: Article

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