Conservation of absolute foveal area in New World monkeys: A constraint on eye size and conformation

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 276-286

  Franco, E C S ^a   Finlay, Barbara L ^b   Silveira, L C L ^a   Yamada, E S ^a   Crowley, J C ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Cone density; Fovea; New World primates; Retina; Rods

Indexed keywords

ALOUATTA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; CEBIDAE; CELL DENSITY; CELL INCLUSION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MARMOSET; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA ROD; SQUIRREL MONKEY;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; CEBIDAE; CONES (RETINA); EVOLUTION; EYE; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; RETINA; RODS (RETINA); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA CARAYA; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; MACACA MULATTA; MARMOSETS; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS MIDAS NIGER; SAIMIRI; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0034469055     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000047211     Document Type: Article

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