The Genetics and Evolution of Primate Visual Pigments

The Primate Visual System: A Comparative Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 73-97

  Hunt, David M ^a   Bowmaker, James K ^a   Jacobs, Gerald H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue cone monochromacy; Cone visual pigments; Evolution of trichromacy; Gene conversion; Howler monkey duplication; New World primate polymorphic L M opsin alleles; Opsin gene duplication; Polymorphism based trichromacy; Rod opsin gene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889358814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470868112.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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