Evolutionary renovation of L/M opsin polymorphism confers a fruit discrimination advantage to ateline New World monkeys

Evolutionary renovation of L/M opsin polymorphism confers a fruit discrimination advantage to ateline New World monkeys

New World monkeys exhibit prominent colour vision variation due to allelic polymorphism of the long-to-middle wavelength (L/M) opsin gene. The known spectral variation of L/M opsins in primates is broadly determined by amino acid composition at three sites: 180, 277 and 285 (the ‘three-sites’ rule)....

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Main Authors: Matsumoto, Yoshifumi, Hiramatsu, Chihiro, Matsushita, Yuka, Ozawa, Norihiro, Ashino, Ryuichi, Nakata, Makiko, Kasagi, Satoshi, Di Fiore, Anthony, Schaffner, Colleen M, Aureli, Filippo, Melin, Amanda D, Kawamura, Shoji
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4260670/

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