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Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:1807-1811 (2002)
© 2002 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Natural Selection of the Rhodopsin Gene During the Adaptive Radiation of East African Great Lakes Cichlid Fishes

Tohru Sugawara, Yohey Terai and Norihiro Okada

Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

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The Great Lakes of the East African Rift Valley, Lakes Victoria, Malawi, and Tanganyika, harbor approximately 200, 400, and 170 endemic species of cichlid fishes, respectively (Fryer and Iles 1972Citation , pp. 6–590; Greenwood 1991Citation ). These fishes have fascinated evolutionary biologists as spectacular examples of explosive adaptive radiation among living vertebrates because the fishes have adapted to a variety of niches in the lakes (Fryer and Iles 1972Citation ; Greenwood 1984Citation ). Accordingly, they are extremely diverse, both ecologically and morphologically, despite having evolved over a very short period (Meyer et al. 1990Citation ; Sturmbauer and Meyer 1992Citation ; Johnson et al. 1996Citation ; Takahashi et al. 2001Citation ). The visual systems of these fishes are of particular interest because they are important for feeding (Fryer and Iles 1972Citation ) as well as for mate choice (Seehausen, van Alphen, and Witte 1997Citation ; Seehausen and van Alphen 1998Citation ), . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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