Photopigments and the dimensionality of animal color vision

GH Jacobs - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Early color-matching studies established that normal human color vision is trichromatic.
Subsequent research revealed a causal link between trichromacy and the presence in the …

Concurrent action of purifying selection and gene conversion results in extreme conservation of the major stress-inducible Hsp70 genes in mammals

K Hess, R Oliverio, P Nguyen, D Le, J Ellis, B Kdeiss… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Several evolutionary mechanisms alter the fate of mutations and genes within populations
based on their exhibited functional effects. To understand the underlying mechanisms …

Colour vision genetics learned from New World monkeys in Santa Rosa, Costa Rica

S Kawamura - Primate life histories, sex roles, and adaptability …, 2018 - Springer
By the mid-1980s, it was known that colour vision was polymorphic in New World monkeys
due to allelic variation of the L/M opsin gene. However, until the early 2000s, it was unknown …