How Complexity Originates: The Evolution of Animal Eyes

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2015, Pages 237-260

  Oakley, Todd H ^a   Speiser, Daniel I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Homology; Novelty; Phototransduction; Phylogeny; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HOMOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; VISION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84948946336     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135907     Document Type: Article

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