Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Evidence from opsin genes rejects nocturnality in ancestral primates.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Oct 2005

Tan Ying, Yoder Anne D, Yamashita Nayuta, Li Wen-Hsiung

Abstract excerpt

It is firmly believed that ancestral primates were nocturnal, with nocturnality having been maintained in most prosimian lineages. Under this traditional view, the opsin genes in all nocturnal prosimians should have undergone similar degrees of functional relaxation and accumulated similar extents of deleterious mutations. This expectation is rejected by the short-wavelength (S) opsin gene sequences from 14...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Adaptation, Biological
Share to Cluster Analysis

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Darkness

Share to Phylogeny

Share to Primates

Share to Rod Opsins

Share to Sequence Analysis, DNA

Share to Species Specificity

Source

Open in PubMed Open full text

Identifiers

PMID: 16192351
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507042102
PMCID: PMC1253590

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-07.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Evidence from opsin genes rejects nocturnality in ancestral primates.PMID 16192351Read ↗

Ancestral loss of short wave-sensitive cone visual pigment in lorisiform prosimians, contrasting with its strict conservation in other prosimians.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Mutational changes in S-cone opsin genes common to both nocturnal and cathemeral Aotus monkeys.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Nocturnal light environments influence color vision and signatures of selection on the OPN1SW opsin gene in nocturnal lemurs.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Conservation, Duplication, and Divergence of Five Opsin Genes in Insect Evolution.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Mutations in S-cone pigment genes and the absence of colour vision in two species of nocturnal primate.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Allelic variation in the squirrel monkey x-linked color vision gene: biogeographical and behavioral correlates.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic evidence for the ancestral loss of short-wavelength-sensitive cone pigments in mysticete and odontocete cetaceans.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Opsin phylogeny and evolution: a model for blue shifts in wavelength regulation.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Gene loss, adaptive evolution and the co-evolution of plumage coloration genes with opsins in birds.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic variability of the sws1 cone opsin gene among New World monkeys.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Divergent selection for opsin gene variation in guppy (Poecilia reticulata) populations of Trinidad and Tobago.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Long-wavelength sensitive opsin (LWS) gene variability in Neotropical cichlids (Teleostei: Cichlidae).Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.