Dichromatism in macaque monkeys

Akishi Onishi, Satoshi Koike, Miki Ida, Hiroo Imai, Yoshinori Shichida, Osamu Takenaka, Akitoshi Hanazawa, Hidehiko Konatsu, Akichika Mikami, Shunji Goto, Bambang Suryobrotoq, Kenji Kitahara and Tetsuo Yamamori ()
Additional contact information
Akishi Onishi: Laboratory for Speciation Mechanisms I, National Institute for Basic Biology
Satoshi Koike: Laboratory for Speciation Mechanisms I, National Institute for Basic Biology
Miki Ida: Laboratory for Speciation Mechanisms I, National Institute for Basic Biology
Hiroo Imai: Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Yoshinori Shichida: Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Osamu Takenaka: Primate Research Institute
Akitoshi Hanazawa: Laboratory of Neural Control, National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Hidehiko Konatsu: Laboratory of Neural Control, National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Akichika Mikami: Behavioural and Brain Sciences, Primate Research Institute
Shunji Goto: Center for Applied Primatology and Human Evolutionary Modelling Research, Primate Research Institute
Bambang Suryobrotoq: Bogor Agricultural University
Kenji Kitahara: Jikei University School of Medicine
Tetsuo Yamamori: Laboratory for Speciation Mechanisms I, National Institute for Basic Biology

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6758, 139-140

Abstract: Abstract Old World primates have trichromatic vision because they have three types of cone photoreceptor, each of which is maximally sensitive to short, middle or long wavelengths of light1. Although a proportion of human males (about 8% of caucasians, for example) have X-chromosome-linked colour-vision abnormalities2, no non-human Old World primates have been found to be colour-vision defective3,4. We have tested 3,153 macaque monkeys but found only three dichromats, a frequency that is much lower than in humans.

Date: 1999
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/45966 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:402:y:1999:i:6758:d:10.1038_45966

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/45966

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().