The evolutionary history and spectral tuning of vertebrate visual opsins

JFD Hagen, NS Roberts, RJ Johnston Jr - Developmental biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Many animals depend on the sense of vision for survival. In eumetazoans, vision requires
specialized, light-sensitive cells called photoreceptors. Light reaches the photoreceptors …

Uniform trichromacy in Alouatta caraya and Alouatta seniculus: behavioural and genetic colour vision evaluation

LD Henriques, E Hauzman, DMO Bonci, BSW Chang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - Springer
Primate colour vision depends on a matrix of photoreceptors, a neuronal post receptoral
structure and a combination of genes that culminate in different sensitivity through the visual …

Detection of conspicuous and cryptic food by common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): An evaluation of the importance of color and shape cues

PKS Barros, FN Castro, DMA Pessoa - Behavioural Processes, 2021 - Elsevier
In primates, the advantage of trichromacy (ie, color vision expressed by most humans) over
dichromacy (ie, color vision expressed by many colorblind humans) has been linked to the …

Detection of conspicuous and cryptic food by marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): An evaluation of the importance of color and shape cues

PKS Barros, FN Castro, DMA Pessoa - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Since 19th century, the adaptive function of color vision for object identification has
fascinated science. Countless articles uncovered the advantages of trichromacy (ie, color …