Diversity of color vision: not all Australian marsupials are trichromatic.

Color vision in marsupials has recently emerged as a particularly interesting case among mammals. It appears that there are both dichromats and trichromats among closely related species. In contrast to primates, marsupials seem to have evolved a different type of trichromacy that is not linked to th...

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Main Authors: Wiebke Ebeling, Riccardo C Natoli, Jan M Hemmi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2997786?pdf=render