Evolutionary tinkering with visual photoreception

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 21-37

  Goldsmith, Timothy H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Homology; Keywords Evolution; Natural selection; Photoreceptors; Science education; Vision

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; HYDROXYL GROUP; OPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CHROMATOPHORE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DEUTEROSTOMIA; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY TINKERING; GENE ACTIVATION; HUMAN; MICROVILLUS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOSTOMIA; RED LIGHT; REFRACTION INDEX; REVIEW; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EYE; HUMANS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; PHYLOGENY; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84876245641     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252381200003X     Document Type: Review

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