Spectral shifts of mammalian ultravioletsensitive pigments (Short wavelengthsensitive opsin 1) are associated with eye length and photic niche evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1819, 2015, Pages

  Emerling, Christopher A ^a,b   Huynh, Hieu T ^a,c   Nguyen, Minh A ^a,c   Meredith, Robert W ^a,d   Springer, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Mammalia; Opsin; Short wavelength sensitive opsin 1; Ultraviolet vision

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; COLOR; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; LONGEVITY; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENETICS; PIGMENT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVELENGTH;

MAMMALIA; THERIA;

SCOTOPSIN; SHORT-WAVELENGTH OPSIN;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EYE; GENETICS; LIGHT; LONGEVITY; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE; LIGHT; LONGEVITY; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; ROD OPSINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84947584473     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1817     Document Type: Article

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