Gene duplication is an evolutionary mechanism for expanding spectral diversity in the long-wavelength photopigments of butterflies

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2016-2028

  Frentiu, Francesca D ^a   Bernard, Gary D ^b   Sison Mangus, Marilou P ^a   Van Zandt Brower, Andrew ^c   Briscoe, Adriana D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Gene duplication; Nymphalidae; Opsin; Riodinidae; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARAGINE; ISOLEUCINE; METHIONINE; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MICROFLUOROMETRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AMATHUSIA PHIDIPPUS; APODEMIA MORMO; HERMEUPTYCHIA HERMES; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; RIODINIDAE;

EID: 34548400220     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm132     Document Type: Article

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