Natural selection of the rhodopsin gene during the adaptive radiation of East African Great Lakes cichlid fishes [4]

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1807-1811

  Sugawara, Tohru ^a   Terai, Yohey ^a   Okada, Norihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Cichlid; Positive selection; Rhodopsin; Visual pigment gene

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; RHODOPSIN;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; AFRICA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FISH; GENE SEQUENCE; LAKE; LETTER; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; VISUAL ACUITY;

CICHLIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 0036791133     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004004     Document Type: Letter

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