Colour vision and speciation in Lake Victoria cichlids of the genus Pundamilia

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 4341-4353

  Carleton, Karen L ^a   Parry, Juliet W L ^b   Bowmaker, James K ^b   Hunt, David M ^b   Seehausen, Ole ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d Limnological Research Center   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cichlid fish; Microspectrophotometry; Opsin gene; Speciation; Visual sensitivity

Indexed keywords

CICHLIDAE; PUNDAMILIA; VERTEBRATA;

FRESH WATER; MESSENGER RNA; OPSIN;

AFRICA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CICHLID; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; RETINA CONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CICHLIDS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); FRESH WATER; GENETIC SPECIATION; MALE; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; PIGMENTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 26244455990     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02735.x     Document Type: Article

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