Divergence in cis-regulatory sequences surrounding the opsin gene arrays of African cichlid fishes

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  OQuin, Kelly E ^a   Smith, Daniel ^a   Naseer, Zan ^a   Schulte, Jane ^a   Engel, Samuel D ^a   Loh, Yong Hwee E ^b   Streelman, J Todd ^b   Boore, Jeffrey L ^c,d   Carleton, Karen L ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Genome Project Solutions   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CICHLID; DIVERGENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; VISION;

AFRICAN CICHLIDS; CICHLIDAE; METRIACLIMA ZEBRA; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PISCES; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

FISH PROTEIN; OPSIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CICHLID; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CICHLIDS; FISH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSINS; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 79955700430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-120     Document Type: Article

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