Licht-im-Terrarium: Literaturdatenbank
Licht-im-Terrarium: Literaturdatenbank |
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Hisatomi, O., Takahashi, Y., Taniguchi, Y., Tsukahara, Y., & Tokunaga, F. (1999). Primary structure of a visual pigment in bullfrog green rods. FEBS Letters, 447(1), 44–48. Added by: Sarina (2020-07-01 08:54:00) Last edited by: Sarina (2021-04-27 07:53:03) |
| Resource type: Journal Article DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(99)00209-4 BibTeX citation key: Hisatomi1999 View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: Englisch = English Keywords: Amphibien = Amphibians, Sehvermögen = Visual Perception Creators: Hisatomi, Takahashi, Taniguchi, Tokunaga, Tsukahara Collection: FEBS Letters |
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In frog retina there are special rod photoreceptor cells (‘green rods’) with physiological properties similar to those of typical vertebrate rods (‘red rods’). A cDNA fragment encoding the putative green rod visual pigment was isolated from a retinal cDNA library of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana. Its deduced amino acid sequence has more than 65% identity with those of blue-sensitive cone pigments such as chicken blue and goldfish blue. Antisera raised against its C-terminal amino acid sequence recognized green rods. It is concluded that bullfrog green rods contain a visual pigment which is closely related to the blue-sensitive cone pigments of other non-mammalian vertebrates.
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