Extraordinary diversity of visual opsin genes in dragonflies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2015, Pages E1247-E1256

  Futahashi, Ryo ^a   Kawahara Miki, Ryouka ^b   Kinoshita, Michiyo ^c   Yoshitake, Kazutoshi ^d   Yajima, Shunsuke ^b   Arikawa, Kentaro ^c   Fukatsu, Takema ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color vision; Dragonfly; Molecular evolution; Opsin

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; TRANSDUCIN;

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COMPOUND EYE; DRAGONFLY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LADONA FULVA; LARVAL STAGE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHETRUM ALBISTYLUM; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE; SYMPETRUM FREQUENS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LARVA; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ODONATA; VISION;

ANIMALIA; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); LIBELLULIDAE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LARVA; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ODONATA; OPSINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84925326119     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1424670112     Document Type: Article

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