Seeing red to being red: Conserved genetic mechanism for red cone oil droplets and co-option for red coloration in birds and turtles

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1836, 2016, Pages

  Twyman, Hanlu ^a   Valenzuela, Nicole ^b   Literman, Robert ^b   Andersson, Staffan ^c   Mundy, Nicholas I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Birds; Carotenoid coloration; Colour vision; CYP2J; Retinal oil droplets; Turtles

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COLOR; CROCODILIAN; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; PIGMENT; TURTLE; VISION;

AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); DINOSAURIA; LEPIDOSAURIA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TETRAPODA;

ARACHIDONATE EPOXYGENASE; CYTOCHROME P450;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIRD; COLOR VISION; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PIGMENTATION; RETINA; RETINA CONE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; COLOR VISION; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; PIGMENTATION; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; TURTLES;

EID: 84982293152     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1208     Document Type: Article

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