Gene loss, adaptive evolution and the co-evolution of plumage coloration genes with opsins in birds

Rui Borges; Imran Khan; Warren E. Johnson; M Thomas P Gilbert; Guojie Zhang; Erich D. Jarvis; Stephen J. O'Brien; Agostinho Antunes

doi:10.1186/s12864-015-1924-3

Gene loss, adaptive evolution and the co-evolution of plumage coloration genes with opsins in birds

Rui Borges, Imran Khan, Warren E. Johnson, M Thomas P Gilbert, Guojie Zhang, Erich D. Jarvis, Stephen J. O'Brien, Agostinho Antunes

Ecology and Evolution

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Original language	English
Article number	751
Journal	B M C Genomics
Volume	16
Number of pages	13
ISSN	1471-2164
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-1924-3
Publication status	Published - 6 Oct 2015

Keywords

Opsin
Vision
Birds
Gene loss
Pseudogenization
Co-evolution
Plumage coloration

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