Correlation between nuptial colors and visual sensitivities tuned by opsins leads to species richness in sympatric Lake Victoria cichlid fishes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3281-3296

  Miyagi, Ryutaro ^a   Terai, Yohey ^a   Aibara, Mitsuto ^a   Sugawara, Tohru ^b   Imai, Hiroo ^b   Tachida, Hidenori ^c   Mzighani, Semvua Isa ^a,d   Okitsu, Takashi ^e   Wada, Akimori ^e   Okada, Norihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TANZANIA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^e KOBE PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cichlid fish; color vision; nuptial color; opsin; reproductive isolation; sympatric species richness

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; FISH; GENE FREQUENCY; HABITAT; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMPATRY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AFRICA; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CICHLIDS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; LAKES; LIGHT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSINS; PIGMENTATION; PSEUDOGENES; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMPATRY; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84867772400     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss139     Document Type: Article

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