Shozo Yokoyama

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Best Publications

• Molecular evolution of vertebrate visual pigments.

  Shozo Yokoyama

  791
  Citations

• Evolution of dim-light and color vision pigments.

  Shozo Yokoyama

  357
  Citations

• The molecular genetics and evolution of red and green color vision in vertebrates.

  Shozo Yokoyama;F Bernhard Radlwimmer

  294
  Citations

• Elucidation of phenotypic adaptations: Molecular analyses of dim-light vision proteins in vertebrates

  Shozo Yokoyama;Takashi Tada;Huan Zhang;Lyle Britt

  290
  Citations

• Convergent evolution of the red- and green-like visual pigment genes in fish, Astyanax fasciatus, and human.

  Ruth Yokoyama;Shozo Yokoyama

  283
  Citations

• ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION OF PHOTORECEPTORS AND VISUAL PIGMENTS IN VERTEBRATES

  Shozo Yokoyama;Ruth Yokoyama

  255
  Citations

• Molecular analysis of the evolutionary significance of ultraviolet vision in vertebrates

  Yongsheng Shi;Shozo Yokoyama

  232
  Citations

• Molecular evolution of color vision in vertebrates

  Shozo Yokoyama

  226
  Citations

• The evolutionary advantage of recombination. II. Individual selection for recombination.

  Joseph Felsenstein;Shozo Yokoyama

  223
  Citations

• The "five-sites" rule and the evolution of red and green color vision in mammals.

  S Yokoyama;F B Radlwimmer

  222
  Citations

• POPULATION DYNAMICS OF SEX-DETERMINING ALLELES IN HONEY BEES AND SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY ALLELES IN PLANTS

  Shozo Yokoyama;Masatoshi Nei

  212
  Citations

• DNA elimination in Tetrahymena: a developmental process involving extensive breakage and rejoining of DNA at defined sites.

  Meng-Chao Yao;Judy Choi;Shozo Yokoyama;Charles F. Austerberry

  193
  Citations

• Molecular genetics and the evolution of ultraviolet vision in vertebrates.

  Y Shi;F B Radlwimmer;S Yokoyama

  186
  Citations

• Adaptive evolution of color vision of the Comoran coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)

  Shozo Yokoyama;Huan Zhang;F. Bernhard Radlwimmer;Nathan S. Blow

  183
  Citations

• Role of cryptic genes in microbial evolution.

  B G Hall;S Yokoyama;D H Calhoun

  180
  Citations

• Ultraviolet pigments in birds evolved from violet pigments by a single amino acid change

  Shozo Yokoyama;F. Bernhard Radlwimmer;Nathan S. Blow

  178
  Citations

• The Molecular Genetics of Red and Green Color Vision in Mammals

  S Yokoyama;F B Radlwimmer

  168
  Citations

• Rates of evolution of the retroviral oncogene of Moloney murine sarcoma virus and of its cellular homologues.

  Takashi Gojobori;Shozo Yokoyama

  158
  Citations

• Functional characterization of visual and nonvisual pigments of American chameleon (Anolis carolinensis)

  Shoji Kawamura;Shozo Yokoyama

  152
  Citations

• MOLECULAR GENETIC BASIS OF ADAPTIVE SELECTION:Examples From Color Vision in Vertebrates

  Shozo Yokoyama

  147
  Citations