Molecular genetic basis of adaptive selection: Examples from color vision in vertebrates

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue , 1997, Pages 315-336

  Yokoyama, Shozo ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Amino acid substitutions; Color vision; Opsin; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COLOR VISION; EXON; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SELECTION (GENETICS); VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031468444     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.31.1.315     Document Type: Review

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