The Diversity and Adaptive Evolution of Visual Photopigments in Reptiles

Reptiles are a highly diverse class that consists of snakes, geckos, iguanid lizards, and chameleons among others. Given their unique phylogenetic position in relation to both birds and mammals, reptiles are interesting animal models with which to decipher the evolution of vertebrate photopigments (...

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Main Authors: Christiana Katti, Micaela Stacey-Solis, Nicole Anahí Coronel-Rojas, Wayne Iwan Lee Davies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2019.00352/full