Sexual dimorphism and natural variation within and among species in the Drosophila retinal mosaic

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hilbrant, Maarten ^a,b   Almudi, Isabel ^a   Leite, Daniel J ^a   Kuncheria, Linta ^a   Posnien, Nico ^c   Nunes, Maria D S ^a   McGregor, Alistair P ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Evolution; Eye morphology; Insect vision; Rhodopsins; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EYE; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; MORPHOLOGY; PROTEIN; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; VISION;

DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; HEXAPODA;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; SENSORY RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPOUND EYE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; MALE; RETINA; SENSORY RHODOPSINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84965186638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0240-x     Document Type: Article

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