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Detection of fruit by the Cerrado's marmoset (Callithrix penicillata): modeling color signals for different background scenarios and ambient light intensities.
Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological genetics and physiology - 1 Apr 2009
Perini Eduardo Sosti, Pessoa Valdir Filgueiras, Pessoa Daniel Marques de Almeida
Abstract excerpt
Among placental mammals, only primates have trichromatic color vision, however this is not a uniform condition. Under different genetic status, Old World monkeys have routine trichromacy, while New World monkeys show a visual polymorphism, characterized by obligatory male dichromacy. The ecologic...
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