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Science 19 November 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3699, pp. 1055 - 1057
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3699.1055
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Codominance of Visual Pigments in Hybrid Fishes

William N. McFarland 1 and Frederick W. Munz 2

1 Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2 Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403

Visual pigments of lake char and brook char (Salmonidae) are based on two different proteins. Both proteins are present in first-generation hybrids between these species and they segregate in second-generation and backcross hybrids, as expected of a single-factor difference. This first genetic study suggests that shifts observed in the absorption spectra maxima of visual pigments are related to substitutions of amino acids in the visual proteins.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Optics and Visual Physiology.
M. L. Rubin (1967)
Arch Ophthalmol 78, 77-102
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