Catarrhine photopigments are optimized for detecting targets against a foliage background

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 203, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 1963-1986

  Summer, Petroc ^a   Mollon, J D ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Evolution; Folivory; Frugivory; Kibale; Old World primate; Opsin; Trichromacy; Uganda; Visual ecology

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTEIN; PIGMENT;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CERCOCEBUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECUS; COLOBINAE; COLOR VISION; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RETINA CONE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CERCOCEBUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECUS; COLOBUS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); DIET; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE PROTEINS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; PAN TROGLODYTES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALIA; CERCOCEBUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS ASCANIUS; CERCOPITHECUS MITIS; COLOBINAE; COLOBUS GUEREZA; LOPHOCEBUS ALBIGENA; MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; PROCOLOBUS BADIUS; TROGLODYTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033894764     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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