Epistatic Adaptive Evolution of Human Color Vision

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Yokoyama, Shozo ^a   Xing, Jinyi ^a,b   Liu, Yang ^a   Faggionato, Davide ^a   Altun, Ahmet ^c   Starmer, William T ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LINYI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; PROTEIN SWS1; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BOREOEUTHERIA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SWS1 GENE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ADAPTATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; COLOR VISION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84919682704     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004884     Document Type: Article

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