UC Irvine UC Irvine Previously Published Works Title Sexual Dimorphism and Retinal Mosaic Diversification following the Evolution of a Violet Receptor in Butterflies. Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rn1k318 Journal Molecular biology and evolution, 34(9) ISSN 0737-4038 Authors McCulloch, Kyle J Yuan, Furong Zhen, Ying et al. Publication Date 2017-09-01 DOI 10.1093/molbev/msx163 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Sexual Dimorphism and Retinal Mosaic Diversification following the Evolution of a Violet Receptor in Butterflies Kyle J. McCulloch,*,1 Furong Yuan,1 Ying Zhen,2 Matthew L. Aardema,2,3 Gilbert Smith,1,4 Jorge Llorente-Bousquets,5 Peter Andolfatto,2,6 and Adriana D. Briscoe*,1 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 3Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 4School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University Brambell Laboratories, Bangor Gwynedd, UK 5Museo de Zoologıa, Departamento de Biologıa Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional AutonomadeMe ´xico, Me´xico, D.F., Me´xico Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article-abstract/34/9/2271/3827455 by guest on 24 December 2019 6The Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ *Corresponding authors: E-mails:
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[email protected]. Associate editor: Patricia Wittkopp Abstract Numerous animal lineages have expanded and diversified the opsin-based photoreceptors in their eyes underlying color vision behavior. However, the selective pressures giving rise to new photoreceptors and their spectral tuning remain mostly obscure.