Molecular evolution of luciferase diversified bioluminescent signals in sea fireflies

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• who: Ostracoda and collaborators from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the Article: Molecular evolution of luciferase diversified bioluminescent signals in sea fireflies, in the Preprint: biorxiv of 23/01/2020
• what: The authors show the diversification of bioluminescent signals in cypridinid ostracods ("sea fireflies") to be strongly influenced by a single gene, cypridinid-luciferase. This work provides a rare glimpse into the genetic basis of diversification across many species, showing how multiple evolutionary processes may act at different times during a radiation of species to diversify phenotypes. The authors characterize new c-luciferase genes for phylogenetic . . .
  

   

  

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