Reply to Nozawa et al.: Complementary statistical methods support positive selection of a duplicated UV opsin gene in Heliconius

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Briscoe, Adriana D ^a   Bybee, Seth M ^a   Bernard, Gary D ^b   Yuan, Furong ^a   Sison Mangus, Marilou P ^a   Reed, Robert D ^a   Warren, Andrew D ^c   Llorente Bousquets, Jorge ^d   Chiao, Chuan Chin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; RHODOPSIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; FORELIMB; GENE DUPLICATION; HELICONIUS; INSECT GENETICS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

HELICONIUS;

EID: 77953766655     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004040107     Document Type: Letter

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