ArticleJournal of molecular evolution2012
Opsin evolution in damselfish: convergence, reversal, and parallel evolution across tuning sites.
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- Molecular Evolution of Ultraviolet Visual Opsins and Spectral Tuning of Photoreceptors in Anemonefishes (Amphiprioninae).Genome biology and evolution · 2021Article
- Seeing the rainbow: mechanisms underlying spectral sensitivity in teleost fishes.The Journal of experimental biology · 2020Review
- A detailed investigation of the visual system and visual ecology of the Barrier Reef anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Testing the role of trait reversal in evolutionary diversification using song loss in wild crickets.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Rhodopsin gene evolution in early teleost fishes.PloS one · 2018Article
- Genomic Environment Impacts Color Vision Evolution in a Family with Visually Based Sexual Selection.Genome biology and evolution · 2017Article
- Convergent evolution of SWS2 opsin facilitates adaptive radiation of threespine stickleback into different light environments.PLoS biology · 2017Article
- The opsin genes of amazonian cichlids.Molecular ecology · 2017Article
- Proximate and ultimate causes of variable visual sensitivities: Insights from cichlid fish radiations.Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) · 2016Review
- Multiple Genetic Mechanisms Contribute to Visual Sensitivity Variation in the Labridae.Molecular biology and evolution · 2016Article
- Evolutionary dynamics of Rh2 opsins in birds demonstrate an episode of accelerated evolution in the New World warblers (Setophaga).Molecular ecology · 2015Article
- SWS2 visual pigment evolution as a test of historically contingent patterns of plumage color evolution in warblers.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2015Article
- Antagonistic effects of predator color morph abundance and saliency on prey anti-predator responses.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
The visual system plays a role in nearly every aspect of an organism's life history, and there is a direct link between visual pigment phenotypes and opsin genotypes. In previous studies of African cichlid fishes, we found evidence for positive selection among some opsins, with sequence variation greatest for opsins producing the shortest and longest wavelength visual pigments. In this study, we examined opsin evolution in the closely related damselfish family (Pomacentridae), a group of reef fishes that are distributed widely and have a documented fossil record of at least 50 million years (MY). We found increased functional variation in the protein sequences of opsins at the short- and long-wavelength ends of the visual spectrum, in agreement with the African cichlids, despite an order of magnitude difference in the ages of the two radiations. We also reconstructed amino acid substitutions across opsin tuning sites. These reconstructions indicated multiple instances of parallel evolution, at least one definitive case of convergent evolution, and one evolutionary reversal. Our findings show that the amino acids at spectral tuning sites are labile evolutionarily, and that the same codons evolve repeatedly. These findings emphasize that the aquatic light environment can shape opsin sequence evolution. They further show that phylogenetic approaches can provide important insights into the mechanisms by which natural selection "tinkers" with phenotypes.
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