Rod Monochromacy and the Coevolution of Cetacean Retinal Opsins

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Meredith, Robert W ^a,b   Gatesy, John ^a   Emerling, Christopher A ^a   York, Vincent M ^a,c   Springer, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCOTOPSIN; OPSIN;

ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; BOWHEAD WHALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVING; GENE INACTIVATION; GRAY WHALE; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LWS GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PSEUDOGENE; RETINA ROD; RH1 GENE; RIGHT WHALE; ROD MONOCHROMACY; RORQUAL; SOWERBY BEAKED WHALE; SPERM WHALE; SWS1 GENE; WHALE; ANIMAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; BALAENOPTERIDAE; CETACEA; ESCHRICHTIIDAE; KOGIA; KOGIA BREVICEPS; MAMMALIA; MESOPLODON BIDENS; MYSTICETI; ODONTOCETI; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSINS; PHYLOGENY; WHALES;

EID: 84876864107     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003432     Document Type: Article

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