Uniformity of colour vision in Old World monkeys

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1432, 1999, Pages 2023-2028

  Jacobs, Gerald H ^a   Deegan II, Jess F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Evolution; Old World monkeys; Photopigment variations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECIDAE;

EID: 0033533826     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0881     Document Type: Article

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