Multiple rod - Cone and cone - Rod Photoreceptor transmutations in snakes: Evidence from visual opsin gene expression

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1823, 2016, Pages

  Simoões, Bruno F ^a   Sampaio, Filipa L ^a   Loew, Ellis R ^b   Sanders, Kate L ^c   Fisher, Robert N ^d   Hart, Nathan S ^e   Hunt, David M ^f   Partridge, Julian C ^f,g   Gower, David J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

mRNA; Retina; Serpentes; Vision; Visual pigments

Indexed keywords

EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; MORPHOLOGY; MUTATION; PHOTORECEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT; RNA; SNAKE; TAXONOMY; VISION;

GEKKONIDAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 84955584070     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2624     Document Type: Article

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