Article
Gene conversion and purifying selection shape nucleotide variation in gibbon L/M opsin genes.
BMC evolutionary biology - 22 Oct 2011
Hiwatashi Tomohide, Mikami Akichika, Katsumura Takafumi, Suryobroto Bambang, Perwitasari-Farajallah Dyah, Malaivijitnond Suchinda, Siriaroonrat Boripat, Oota Hiroki, Goto Shunji, Kawamura Shoji
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Routine trichromatic color vision is a characteristic feature of catarrhines (humans, apes and Old World monkeys). This is enabled by L and M opsin genes arrayed on the X chromosome and an autosomal S opsin gene. In non-human catarrhines, genetic variation affecting the color vision phenotype is reported to be absent or rare in both L and M opsin genes, despite the suggestion that gene conversion has...
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- Animals
- Gene Conversion
- Genotype
- Hylobates
- Introns
- Nucleotides