Ecological importance of trichromatic vision to primates

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6826, 2001, Pages 363-366

  Dominy, N J ^a   Lucas, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FOOD PRODUCTS; PROTEINS; VEGETATION;

PRIMATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

VISUAL PIGMENT;

COLOR; FOOD SELECTION; PRIMATE; VISION;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SURVIVAL; UGANDA; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS; COLOBUS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DIET; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FRUIT; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLANT LEAVES; PRIMATES; UGANDA;

UGANDA;

ALOUATTA; MAMMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES;

EID: 0035868699     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35066567     Document Type: Article

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