Functional characterization of spectral tuning mechanisms in the great bowerbird short-wavelength sensitive visual pigment (SWS1), and the origins of UV/violet vision in passerines and parrots

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Van Hazel, Ilke ^a   Sabouhanian, Amir ^a   Day, Lainy ^b   Endler, John A ^c   Chang, Belinda Sw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bird vision; Opsins; Ultraviolet; Visual pigment evolution

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTAGENICITY; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISION; WAVELENGTH;

AVES; CHLAMYDERA NUCHALIS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PSITTACIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

AVIAN PROTEIN; SCOTOPSIN; SHORT WAVELENGTH OPSIN; SHORT-WAVELENGTH OPSIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PARROT; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SONGBIRD; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISION;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BIRDS; FEMALE; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PARROTS; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; ROD OPSINS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84887400759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-250     Document Type: Article

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