Visual perception is a key element in evolution, as it is required for many life processes. Two recent studies in BMC Biology and BMC Evolutionary Biology shed light on the genetic determinants of color detection in strikingly colored fish
BACKGROUND: The sensory drive hypothesis predicts that divergent sensory adaptation in different hab...
Visual system evolution can be influenced by the spectral properties of light available in the envir...
Cichlid fishes' famous diversity in body coloration is accompanied by a highly diverse and complex v...
Among vertebrates, teleost eye diversity exceeds that found in all other groups. Their spectral sens...
Abstract Background Color vision plays a critical role in visual behavior. An animal's capacity for ...
A major goal of evolutionary biology is to unravel the molecular genetic mechanisms that underlie fu...
Vision represents an excellent model for studying adaptation, given the genotype-to-phenotype map th...
A major goal of evolutionary biology is to unravel the molecular genetic mechanisms that underlie fu...
A major goal of evolutionary biology is to unravel the molecular genetic mechanisms that underlie fu...
A major goal of evolutionary biology is to unravel the molecular genetic mechanisms that underlie fu...
Aquatic environments are well-suited for studying visual adaptation; light attenuation creates disti...
AbstractOpsariichthys pachycephalus and Candidia barbatus are two phylogenetically related freshwate...
Evolutionary biology has long sought to understand the evolution of adaptive phenotypes. While purel...
The opsin genes of mammals have been the subject of a number of studies. As a useful comparison and ...
The capacity for colour vision is mediated by the comparison of the signal intensities from photorec...
BACKGROUND: The sensory drive hypothesis predicts that divergent sensory adaptation in different hab...
Visual system evolution can be influenced by the spectral properties of light available in the envir...
Cichlid fishes' famous diversity in body coloration is accompanied by a highly diverse and complex v...
Among vertebrates, teleost eye diversity exceeds that found in all other groups. Their spectral sens...
Abstract Background Color vision plays a critical role in visual behavior. An animal's capacity for ...
A major goal of evolutionary biology is to unravel the molecular genetic mechanisms that underlie fu...
Vision represents an excellent model for studying adaptation, given the genotype-to-phenotype map th...
A major goal of evolutionary biology is to unravel the molecular genetic mechanisms that underlie fu...
A major goal of evolutionary biology is to unravel the molecular genetic mechanisms that underlie fu...
A major goal of evolutionary biology is to unravel the molecular genetic mechanisms that underlie fu...
Aquatic environments are well-suited for studying visual adaptation; light attenuation creates disti...
AbstractOpsariichthys pachycephalus and Candidia barbatus are two phylogenetically related freshwate...
Evolutionary biology has long sought to understand the evolution of adaptive phenotypes. While purel...
The opsin genes of mammals have been the subject of a number of studies. As a useful comparison and ...
The capacity for colour vision is mediated by the comparison of the signal intensities from photorec...
BACKGROUND: The sensory drive hypothesis predicts that divergent sensory adaptation in different hab...
Visual system evolution can be influenced by the spectral properties of light available in the envir...
Cichlid fishes' famous diversity in body coloration is accompanied by a highly diverse and complex v...