Identification of a protanomalous chimpanzee by molecular genetic and electroretinogram analyses.
We determined the structures of long (L)-wavelength-sensitive and middle (M)-wavelength-sensitive opsin gene array of 58 male chimpanzees and we investigated relative sensitivity to red and green lights by electroretinogram flicker photometry. One subject had protanomalous color vision, while others had normal color vision. Unlike in humans, a polymorphic difference in the copy number of the genes and a polymorphic base substitution at amino acid position 180 were not frequently observed in chimpanzees.
Terao
Kenichi
K
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research, 2-6 Musashidai, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8526, Japan.
Mikami
Akichika
A
Saito
Atsuko
A
Itoh
Shin-ichi
S
Ogawa
Hisashi
H
Takenaka
Osamu
O
Sakai
Takahiro
T
Onishi
Akishi
A
Teramoto
Migaku
M
Udono
Toshifumi
T
Emi
Yoshiko
Y
Kobayashi
Hisao
H
Imai
Hiroo
H
Shichida
Yoshinori
Y
Koike
Satoshi
S
D000818:Animals; D018420:Ape Diseases / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology*; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern / Q000379:methods; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology; D003117:Color Vision Defects / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D004596:Electroretinography / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology*; D010783:Photometry / Q000379:methods; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D018807:Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational; D017299:Rod Opsins / Q000235:genetics
D017299:Rod Opsins