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Polymorphism and Adaptation of Primate Colour Vision

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Opsins provide an excellent model system for studying evolutionary interconnections at genetic, phenotypic and behavioural levels. Primates have evolved a unique ability for trichromatic colour vision from a dichromatic mammalian ancestor. This was accomplished via allelic differentiation (e.g. most New World monkeys) or gene duplication (e.g. Old World primates) of the middle to long-wavelength sensitive (M/LWS) opsin gene. However, questions remain regarding the behavioural adaptations of primate trichromacy. Allelic differentiation of the M/LWS opsins results in extensive colour vision variability in New World monkeys, where trichromats and dichromats are found in the same breeding population, enabling us to directly compare visual performances among different colour vision phenotypes. Thus, New World monkeys can serve as an excellent model to understand and evaluate the adaptive significance of primate trichromacy in a behavioural context. In this chapter, we summarise recent findings on colour vision evolution in vertebrates, with special emphasis on primates, and introduce our genetic and behavioural study on primate colour vision polymorphism and adaptation.

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Acknowledgments

Our study was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research A 19207018 and 22247036 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas “Comparative Genomics” 20017008 and “Cellular Sensor” 21026007 from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan to S.K; a Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (15-11926) to C.H.; post-graduate scholarships and grants from the Alberta Ingenuity Fund, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Leakey Foundation and the Animal Behavior Society to A.D.M; the Canada Research Chairs Program and a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to L.M.F.; the Leakey Foundation and the North of England Zoological Society to F.A.; the British Academy and the University of Chester small grants scheme to C.M.S.

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    Amanda D. Melin & Linda M. Fedigan

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    Chihiro Hiramatsu & Shoji Kawamura

  3. Psychology Department, University of Chester, Chester, UK

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  4. Instituto de Neuroetologia, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico

    Colleen M. Schaffner & Filippo Aureli

  5. Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

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Melin, A.D., Hiramatsu, C., Fedigan, L.M., Schaffner, C.M., Aureli, F., Kawamura, S. (2012). Polymorphism and Adaptation of Primate Colour Vision. In: Pontarotti, P. (eds) Evolutionary Biology: Mechanisms and Trends. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30425-5_13

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