Evolution of eye morphology and Rhodopsin expression in the Drosophila melanogaster species subgroup

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Posnien, Nico ^a,b   Hopfen, Corinna ^b,f   Hilbrant, Maarten ^a   Ramos Womack, Margarita ^c   Murat, Sophie ^a,b   Schönauer, Anna ^b   Herbert, Samantha L ^d   Nunes, Maria D S ^a,b   Arif, Saad ^a,b   Breuker, Casper J ^a   Schlötterer, Christian ^b   Mitteroecker, Philipp ^e   McGregor, Alistair P ^a,b  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COMPOUND EYE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; EYE DIMENSION; EYE SHAPE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HEAD; LIGHT; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OMMATIDIUM; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD; PHENOTYPE; RHODOPSIN;

DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84861475765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037346     Document Type: Article

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