title: Primate color vision: a comparative perspective.
abstract: Thirty years ago virtually everything known about primate color vision derived from psychophysical studies of normal and color-defective humans and from physiological investigations of the visual system of the macaque monkey, the most popular of human surrogates for this purpose. The years since have witnessed much progress toward the goal of understanding this remarkable feature of primate vision. Among many advances, investigations focused on naturally occurring variations in color vision in a wide range of nonhuman primate species have proven to be particularly valuable. Results from such studies have been central to our expanding understanding of the interrelationships between opsin genes, cone photopigments, neural organization, and color vision. This work is also yielding valuable insights into the evolution of color vision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA. jacobs@psych.ucsb.edu
authors.forename: Gerald H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Jacobs
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D055253:Color Vision / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D055355:Opsins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D011323:Primates / Q000502:physiology*; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D012168:Retinal Pigments / Q000502:physiology; D017948:Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000502:physiology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D014960:X Chromosome / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D055355:Opsins; D012168:Retinal Pigments