Spectral tuning by selective chromophore uptake in rods and cones of eight populations of nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2760-2773

  Saarinen, Pia ^a   Pahlberg, Johan ^a   Herczeg, Gabor ^b   Viljanen, Martta ^b   Karjalainen, Marika ^b   Shikano, Takahito ^b   Merilä, Juha ^b   Donner, Kristian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Photoreceptor; Porphyropsin; Rhodopsin; Visual ecology

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; SCOTOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; FINLAND; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ABSORPTION; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHY; LIGHT; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; ROD OPSINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SMEGMAMORPHA;

PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864350906     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.068122     Document Type: Article

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