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Allelic variation in Malawi cichlid opsins: a tale of two genera.

Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jun 2010

Smith Adam R, Carleton Karen L

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The role of sequence variation in the spectral tuning of color vision is well established in many systems. This includes the cichlids of Lake Victoria where sequence variation has been linked to environmental light gradients and speciation. The cichlids of Lake Malawi are a similar model for visual evolution, but the role of gene sequence variation in visual tuning between closely related species is unknown. This...

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Alleles
Animals
Cichlids
Fish Proteins
Malawi
Molecular Sequence Data
Opsins
Phylogeny
Sequence Analysis, DNA

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PMID: 20523974
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-010-9355-x

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