Immunohistochemical evidence of cone-based ultraviolet vision in divergent bat species and implications for its evolution

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 398-403

  Xuan, Fujun ^a   Hu, Kailiang ^a   Zhu, Tengteng ^a   Racey, Paul ^b   Wang, Xuzhong ^a   Zhang, Shuyi ^a   Sun, Yi ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bats; Evolution; Fos like immunostaining; UV vision

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; PROTEIN FOS;

ARTICLE; BAT; CONE BASED ULTRAVIOLET VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYNOPTERUS SPHINX; ECOLOGY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HIPPOSIDEROS ARMIGER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ROUSETTUS LESCHENAULTII; SCOTOPHILUS KUHLII; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXON; TREE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

CHIROPTERA; CYNOPTERUS SPHINX; HIPPOSIDEROS ARMIGER; MAMMALIA; ROUSETTUS; SCOTOPHILUS KUHLII;

EID: 84862782532     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: 18791107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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