  Research articleAdaptive sequence evolution in a color gene involved in the formation of the characteristic egg-dummies of male haplochromine cichlid fishesWalter Salzburger* 1,2,3 1Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany 2Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 3Zoologisches Institut der Universität Basel, Evolutionsbiologie, Universität Basel, 4051 Basel, Switzerland 4Physiological Chemistry I, University of Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
BMC Biology 2007, 5:51doi:10.1186/1741-7007-5-51
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The breeding cycle of Astatotilapia burtoni. Modified from [59]. Format: MOV Size: 10MB Download file Playing the movie within this page requires QuickTime and JavaScript. Read more Additional file 2: Amino acid substitutions in Csf1ra in haplochromines. The numbering of amino acids is relative to the start site in A. burtoni (DQ386648). Format: JPEG Size: 306KB Download file Additional file 3: dN/dS ratio of haplochromines compared to non-haplochromines in two segments of kita. The sliding window analysis with DNASP did not detect a dN/dS > 1 in the extracellular domain (a) or in the intracellular domain (b) of kita. See Figure 4b for the same analysis in csf1ra and the Methods section for details of the analysis. Format: JPEG Size: 137KB Download file |
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