SWS2 visual pigment evolution as a test of historically contingent patterns of plumage color evolution in warblers

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 341-356

  Bloch, Natasha I ^a   Morrow, James M ^b   Chang, Belinda S W ^b,c   Price, Trevor D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ancestral reconstructions; Convergent evolution; Correlated evolution; Historical contingency; Opsins; Visual pigment in vitro expression

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; CLADISTICS; COLOR MORPH; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS; PIGMENT; PLUMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION;

AVES; EMBERIZINAE; FRINGILLIDAE; SYLVIIDAE;

SCOTOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; COLOR VISION; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; GENETICS; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEATHERS; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; RETINAL PIGMENTS; ROD OPSINS;

EID: 84922484281     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12572     Document Type: Article

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