Origins and antiquity of X-linked triallelic color vision systems in New World monkeys.

doi:10.1073/pnas.95.23.13749

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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

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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. Th...

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Alleles
Animals
Base Sequence
Biological Evolution
Color Perception
Genetic Linkage
Haplorhini
Humans
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
X Chromosome

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