Article
Genetic and environmental variation in the visual properties of bluefin killifish, Lucania goodei.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 May 2005
Fuller R C, Carleton K L, Fadool J M, Spady T C, Travis J
Abstract excerpt
Animals use their sensory systems to detect information about the external environment in order to find mates, locate food and habitat and avoid predators. Yet, there is little understanding of the relative amounts of genetic and/or environmental variation in sensory system properties. In this paper, we demonstrate genetic and environmental variation in opsin expression in a population of bluefin killifish. We...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Crosses, Genetic
- Environment
- Florida
- Fundulidae
- Gene Expression
- Genetic Variation
- Light
- Pigmentation
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction