Item |
Label |
Content |
Brief description |
Link |
1 |
Book |
Sean Carroll's 'Making of the Fittest' |
Wonderful, interesting fact-supported read AND refs to published scientific literature |
Web link |
2 |
Video collection |
HHMI's BioInteractive site |
Not actually interactive, but informative movies! |
Web link |
3 |
Layperson-friendly overview |
Article in 'The Scientist' |
Describes 3 causative changes in humans; looks @ other species |
Web link |
4 |
Opsinize |
Interactive thinkBio interactive investigation |
Turn a 'red' sensing opsin into a 'green' sensing one... by mutation! |
Web link |
6 |
Go_Opsin |
Retinal; Opsin membrane location |
3D graphical tutorial; initial work by Frieda Reichsman |
Web link |
8 |
Phylogenetic tree |
Hayden-McNeil image |
I've requested permission to share this; no word yet |
Web link |
10 |
Yokoyama lab |
Source of a lot of primary research into opsin amino acid sequence/function |
See the Publications link, 'Genetics and adaptation of vertebrate vision' |
Web link |
14 |
U. Utah Webvision |
Thorough, nice graphics & content |
Extensive tutorial, broad range of vision info |
Web link |
16 |
Opsins in Cichlid fishes |
Different colors and environments, different opsins on |
Cichlids are the result of very rapid diversification in African lakes |
Article Review |
18 |
Butterfly wings vs. opsins |
Correlations between opsin capabilities and wing pigments |
Briscoe et al. |
PNAS paper |
11 |
Reconstructing mutation order |
By creating different combinations, determine likely order of actual mutations (some opsin sequences => inactive protein, so not correct path). ***This is UV => Blue, not red/green |
Ying et al., PLOS One |
Science Daily article |