PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS AMONG VERTEBRATE VISUAL PIGMENTS

Authors
HISATOMI O KAYADA S AOKI Y IWASA T TOKUNAGA F
Citation
O. Hisatomi et al., PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS AMONG VERTEBRATE VISUAL PIGMENTS, Vision research, 34(23), 1994, pp. 3097-3102
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences,Ophthalmology
Journal title
Vision research → ACNP
ISSN journal
00426989
Volume
34
Issue
23
Year of publication
1994
Pages
3097 - 3102
Database
ISI
SICI code
0042-6989(1994)34:23<3097:PAVVP>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Genomic DNA fragments in exon 4 of chicken, goldfish and salmon visual pigments were amplified by polymerase chain reaction, using oligonucl eotide mixtures as primers, and hypothetical phylogenetic trees were d rawn up from the deduced amino acid sequences. The results suggest tha t vertebrate visual pigments have evolved along at least five lines, a nd that these lines diverged from an ancestral gene before the bony fi shes diverged from the rest of the higher vertebrates.