The Evolution of Trichromatic Color Vision by Opsin Gene Duplication in New World and Old World Primates

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.

Dot matrix plot of human MW and LW upstream region. The parameters for comparison were set at 60% identity for a sliding window of 10 nucleotides. The presence of a diagonal line that passes through the origin indicates homology at the same position in both sequences. Note that no continuous lines are present beyond position −236.

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  1. Genome Res. 9: 629-638

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