Color vision in squirrel monkeys: sex-related differences suggest the mode of inheritance.
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Behavioral tests of vision in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) reveal that there are widespread individual variations in color vision in this species. The variation has a sex-related component: whereas both trichromatic and dichromatic color vision occurs among female monkeys, males appear exclusively dichromatic. This finding suggests that, unlike humans, squirrel monkeys have only a single photopigment locus on the X chromosome.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Vision research
دوره 25 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1985