Contrasting modes of evolution of the visual pigments in Heliconius butterflies

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2392-2405

  Yuan, Furong ^a   Bernard, Gary D ^b   Le, Jennifer ^a   Briscoe, Adriana D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive evolution; color vision; gene duplication; rhodopsin

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CHROMATOPHORE; DENSITOMETRY; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; HELICONIUS ELEVATUS; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UVRH1 GENE; UVRH2 GENE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BUTTERFLIES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLOR VISION; DENSITOMETRY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSINS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; HELICONIUS; HELICONIUS ELEVATUS; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 77957237614     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq124     Document Type: Article

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