Adaptive evolution of photoreceptors and visual pigments in vertebrates

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 27, Issue , 1996, Pages 543-567

  Yokoyama, Shozo ^a   Yokoyama, Ruth ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive evolution; amino acid replacements; color vision; opsin; phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030484359     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.27.1.543     Document Type: Article

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