Contrasting levels of DNA polymorphism at the autosomal and X-linked visual color pigment loci in humans and squirrel monkeys

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 449-455

  Shimmin, Lawrence C ^a   Miller, Jerry ^a   Tran, Ha N ^a   Li, Wen Hsiung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Heterozygote advantage; Humans; Natural selection; New World monkeys; Nucleotide diversity; Opsins

Indexed keywords

DNA; OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUIRREL MONKEY; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

EID: 0031977737     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025941     Document Type: Article

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