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Evolutionary analysis of vision genes identifies potential drivers of visual differences between giraffe and okapi

BACKGROUND: The capacity of visually oriented species to perceive and respond to visual signal is integral to their evolutionary success. Giraffes are closely related to okapi, but the two species have broad range of phenotypic differences including their visual capacities. Vision studies rank giraf...

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Autores principales: Ishengoma, Edson, Agaba, Morris, Cavener, Douglas R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28396824
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3145