Adaptive Evolution of Nearctic Deepwater Fish Vision: Implications for Assessing Functional Variation for Conservation.

"a v n n e m n r l and b s wc wrote the paper with assistance from a t d r l t a s and s k c data availability rhodopsin sequence data generated from sanger sequencing are deposited in the national center for biotechnology information (ncbi) nucleotide database (accession numbers: pp025041-pp025303).; raw sequencing reads for rhodopsin metabarcoding analyses are available on the ncbi sequence read archive (sra) (bioproject: prjna1053652). sample metadata and all scripts for bioinformatics pipelines analyses and figures are available on github and have been archived on zenodo (doi: 10 5281/zenodo 10578505). data availability rhodopsin sequence data generated from sanger sequencing are deposited in the national center for biotechnology information (ncbi) nucleotide database (accession numbers: pp025041"

"sample metadata and all scripts for bioinformatics pipelines analyses and figures are available on github and have been archived on zenodo (doi: 10 5281/zenodo 10578505)."

"This work was supported by NSERC Discovery Grants to N.E.M., N.R.L., and B.S.W.C. We would also like to thank the SON fish harvesters, Parks Canada, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada who aided in sampling. We also thank Dave Boguski, Doug Watkinson, William Franzin, Ken Mills, and Chris Wilson for assistance acquiring samples and conducting fieldwork and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture and Royal Ontario Museum for providing critical tissue samples for this study. The 11-cis-retinal chromophore used in the visual pigment experiments was generously provided by Dr. Rosalie Crouch (Medical University of South Carolina)."