Out of the blue: Adaptive visual pigment evolution accompanies Amazon invasion

Biology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Van Nynatten, Alexander ^a   Bloom, Devin ^c   Chang, Belinda S W ^a,b   Lovejoy, Nathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Marine incursion; Molecular evolution; Rhodopsin; South America; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANCESTRY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE POLICY; MIOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PIGMENT;

AMAZON RIVER;

ENGRAULIDAE;

FRESH WATER; RHODOPSIN; SEA WATER;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; FRESH WATER; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; RHODOPSIN; SEAWATER; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84946600376     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0349     Document Type: Article

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