Trichromatic colour vision in New World monkeys.

doi:10.1038/382156a0

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Trichromatic colour vision in New World monkeys.

Nature - 11 Jul 1996

Jacobs G H, Neitz M, Deegan J F, Neitz J

Abstract excerpt

Trichromatic colour vision depends on the presence of three types of cone photopigment. Trichromacy is the norm for all Old World monkeys, apes and humans, but in several genera of New World monkeys, colour vision is strikingly polymorphic. The difference in colour vision between these New and Ol...

Topics

Alouatta
Animals
Color Perception
Electroretinography
Exons
Female
Genetic Variation
Male
Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells
Retinal Pigments
X Chromosome

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