The prevalence of defective color vision in old world monkeys and apes

Color Research and Application

Volumn 26, Issue SUPPL., 2001, Pages

  Jacobs, Gerald H ^a   Williams, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Defective color vision; Dichromacy; Nonhuman primates; Opsin genes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001377228     PISSN: 03612317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1520-6378(2001)26:1+<::aid-col27>3.0.co;2-6     Document Type: Article

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