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Different selective pressures shape the molecular evolution of color vision in chimpanzee and human populations.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Dec 2008
Verrelli Brian C, Lewis Cecil M, Stone Anne C, Perry George H
Abstract excerpt
A population genetic analysis of the long-wavelength opsin (OPN1LW, "red") color vision gene in a global sample of 236 human nucleotide sequences had previously discovered nine amino acid replacement single nucleotide polymorphisms, which were found at high frequencies in both African and non-African populations and associated with an unusual haplotype diversity. Although this pattern of nucleotide diversity is...
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