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Sexual Dimorphism and Retinal Mosaic Diversification following the Evolution of a Violet Receptor in Butterflies.

Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Sept 2017

McCulloch Kyle J, Yuan Furong, Zhen Ying, Aardema Matthew L, Smith Gilbert, Llorente-Bousquets Jorge, Andolfatto Peter, Briscoe Adriana D

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Numerous animal lineages have expanded and diversified the opsin-based photoreceptors in their eyes underlying color vision behavior. However, the selective pressures giving rise to new photoreceptors and their spectral tuning remain mostly obscure. Previously, we identified a violet receptor (UV2) that is the result of a UV opsin gene duplication specific to Heliconius butterflies. At the same time the violet...

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PMID: 28505307
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx163

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