Progress Toward Understanding the Evolution of Primate Color Vision

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2002, Pages 132-135

  Jacobs, Gerald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropoids; Color vision; Evolution of vision; Opsin genes; Photopigments; Prosimians

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANTHROPOIDEA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; REPTILIA; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0036960583     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.10075     Document Type: Article

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