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Origins and antiquity of X-linked triallelic color vision systems in New World monkeys.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Nov 1998
Boissinot S, Tan Y, Shyue S K, Schneider H, Sampaio I, Neiswanger K, Hewett-Emmett D, Li W H
Abstract excerpt
It is known that the squirrel monkey, marmoset, and other related New World (NW) monkeys possess three high-frequency alleles at the single X-linked photopigment locus, and that the spectral sensitivity peaks of these alleles are within those delimited by the human red and green pigment genes. The three alleles in the squirrel monkey and marmoset have been sequenced previously. In this study, the three alleles...
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