Rhodopsin gene copies in Japanese eel originated in a teleost-specific genome duplication

Rhodopsin gene copies in Japanese eel originated in a teleost-specific genome duplication

Abstract Background Gene duplication is considered important to increasing the genetic diversity in animals. In fish, visual pigment genes are often independently duplicated, and the evolutionary significance of such duplications has long been of interest. Eels have two rhodopsin genes (rho), one of...

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Main Authors: Yoji Nakamura, Motoshige Yasuike, Miyuki Mekuchi, Yuki Iwasaki, Nobuhiko Ojima, Atushi Fujiwara, Seinen Chow, Kenji Saitoh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:Zoological Letters
Subjects:
Whole genome duplication
Teleostei
Anguilla
Rhodopsin paralogs
Visual adaptation
Phylogenomics
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40851-017-0079-2

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