Adaptive molecular evolution in the opsin genes of rapidly speciating cichlid species

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1412-1422

  Spady, Tyrone C ^a   Seehausen, Ole ^b   Loew, Ellis R ^c   Jordan, Rebecca C ^d   Kocher, Thomas D ^a   Carleton, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cichlid; Opsin; Photic environment; Positive Darwinian selection

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; OPSIN;

AFRICA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VISION;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPSIN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CICHLIDAE; DARWINIA;

EID: 19544387426     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi137     Document Type: Article

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