Importance of achromatic contrast in short-range fruit foraging of primates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Hiramatsu, Chihiro ^a,f   Melin, Amanda D ^b   Aureli, Filippo ^c   Schaffner, Colleen M ^d   Vorobyev, Misha ^e   Matsumoto, Yoshifumi ^a   Kawamura, Shoji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORAGING; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; GRIP STRENGTH; LUMINANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATE; SPIDER MONKEY; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ATELIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATELES GEOFFROYI; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ATELIDAE; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRUIT; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; OPSINS; PRIMATES;

EID: 53749104942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003356     Document Type: Article

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