Gene loss, adaptive evolution and the co-evolution of plumage coloration genes with opsins in birds
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- 作者：Rui Borges ; Imran Khan ; Warren E. Johnson ; M. Thomas P. Gilbert…
- 关键词：Opsin ; Vision ; Birds ; Gene loss ; Pseudogenization ; Co ; evolution ; Plumage coloration
- 刊名：BMC Genomics
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：16
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1,308 KB
- 刊物主题：Life Sciences, general; Microarrays; Proteomics; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Plant Genetics & Genomics;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2164
文摘
Background The wide range of complex photic systems observed in birds exemplifies one of their key evolutionary adaptions, a well-developed visual system. However, genomic approaches have yet to be used to disentangle the evolutionary mechanisms that govern evolution of avian visual systems.