Caecilians maintain a functional long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin gene despite signatures of relaxed selection and more than 200 million years of fossoriality.

Evolution · 2025 · PMC12687342 · PMID 40990923

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Consistently, BUSTED found nearly significant evidence for gene-wide episodic diversifying selection of RH1 in caecilians (P = 0.059) and identified two sites with evidence ratios (ER) ≥ 100 (positions 107 and 213, File S1), aligning with CODEML.

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