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New Primers for the Avian SWS1 Pigment Opsin Gene Reveal New Amino Acid Configurations in Spectral Sensitivity Tuning Sites
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- Ödeen, Anders, 1969- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Zooekologi,Avian vision
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- Håstad, Olle, 1971- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Evolutionär organismbiologi,Avian vision
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- 2009-08-17
- 2009
- English.
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In: Journal of Heredity. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0022-1503 .- 1465-7333. ; 100:6, s. 784-789
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- Recently, polymerase chain reaction-based estimates of visual pigment spectral tuning from genomic DNA have offered an alternative to the authoritative but rather slow and complicated retinal microspectrophotometry method. The genomic DNA method involves sequencing a fragment of the short-wavelength sensitive pigment, type 1 (SWS1) opsin gene covering amino acid positions 86, 90, and 93 and has been utilized in a wide range of avian species. Other key tuning sites have been proposed but not sequenced in the genomic DNA-based spectral sensitivity studies. We have designed 5 new primers for sequencing gene fragments of the ultraviolet-/violet-tuned SWS1 opsin gene containing the first, second and third, and sixth and seventh α-helical transmembrane regions and the spectral tuning sites 49, 86, 90, 93, 116, 118 and 298. Testing these primers on various bird species reveals some novel combinations of amino acid residues at the tuning sites. The potential significance of these on spectral tuning is discussed.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- color vision
- sequencing
- ultraviolet sensitive
- violet sensitive
- Biology
- Biologi
- Biology with specialization in Molecular Biology
- Biologi med inriktning mot molekylärbiologi
- Biologi med inriktning mot evolutionär funktionsgenomik
- Biology with specialization in Evolutionary Functional Genomics
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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