Eye evolution: Common use and independent recruitment of genetic components

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1531, 2009, Pages 2819-2832

  Vopalensky, Pavel ^a   Kozmik, Zbyněk ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Crystallina opsin; Evolution; Eye; Gene; Pigment

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTION; EYE; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INSECT; PHOTORECEPTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349658094     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0079     Document Type: Review

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