Evolutionary renovation of L/M opsin polymorphism confers a fruit discrimination advantage to ateline N ew W orld monkeys

Y Matsumoto, C Hiramatsu, Y Matsushita… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
New World monkeys exhibit prominent colour vision variation due to allelic polymorphism of
the longtomiddle wavelength (L/M) opsin gene. The known spectral variation of L/M …

Color Vision Variation as Evidenced by Hybrid L/M Opsin Genes in Wild Populations of Trichromatic Alouatta New World Monkeys

Y Matsushita, H Oota, BJ Welker, MS Pavelka… - International journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Platyrrhine (New World) monkeys possess highly polymorphic color vision owing to
allelic variation of the single-locus L/M opsin gene on the X chromosome. Most species …

The evolution of photoreceptors and visual photopigments in vertebrates

DM Hunt, SP Collin - Evolution of visual and non-visual pigments, 2014 - Springer
All classical vertebrate retinal photoreceptors have an evolutionary origin from ciliary cells
and retain a modified cilium that links the inner and outer segments. Vertebrate visual …

[HTML][HTML] Purifying selection against gene conversions in the folate receptor genes of primates

N Petronella, G Drouin - Genomics, 2014 - Elsevier
We characterized the gene conversions between the human folate receptor (FOLR) genes
and those of five other primate species. We found 26 gene conversions having an average …

Haute fréquence de conversions géniques entre les gènes codant pour la phosphatase du 2-déoxyglucose 6-phosphate chez trois espèces du genre Saccharomyces

SP Piscopo, G Drouin - Genome, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
Les conversions géniques sont des échanges non réciproques de séquences entre gènes.
Elles sont relativement fréquentes chez Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mais peu d'études ont …

Color Vision Variation as Evidenced by Hybrid L/M Opsin Genes in Wild Populations of Trichromatic Alouatta New World Monkeys

B Welker, Y Matsushita, H Oota, MS Pavelka… - 2014 - knightscholar.geneseo.edu
Abstract Platyrrhine (New World) monkeys possess highly polymorphic color vision owing to
allelic variation of the single-locus L/M opsin gene on the X chromosome. Most species …