Molecular Evolution and Functional Characterization of the Visual Pigment Proteins of the Great Bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis) and Other Vertebrates

Molecular Evolution and Functional Characterization of the Visual Pigment Proteins of the Great Bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis) and Other Vertebrates

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Visual pigments are light sensitive receptors in the eye that form the basis of sensory visual transduction. This thesis presents three studies that explore visual pigment proteins in vertebrates using a number of computational and experimental methods in an evolutionary framework. The objective is...

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Main Author: van Hazel, Ilke
Other Authors: Chang, Belinda
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
Subjects:
bowerbird
visual pigments
opsin
vertebrate phylogenetics
molecular marker
avian vision
visual behaviour
adaptation
mutagenesis
protein expression
short wavelength sensitive 1
SWS1
spectral tuning
evolution
ancestral sequence reconstruction
maximum likelihood
rhodopsin
rod opsin
RH1
retinal release
photoactivation cycle
dim light adaptation
molecular evolution
PAML
0307
0317
0715
0306
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43401
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