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SUBMITTER: Moreira LA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4457725 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moreira Laís Alves Antonio LA de Oliveira Danilo Gustavo Rodrigues DG de Sousa Maria Bernardete Cordeiro MB Pessoa Daniel Marques Almeida DM
PloS one 20150605 6
New World monkeys have polymorphic color vision, in which all males and some females are dichromats, while most females are trichromats. There is little consensus about which selective pressures fashioned primate color vision, although detection of food, mates and predators has been hypothesized. Behavioral evidence shows that males from different species of Neotropical primates seem to perceive the timing of female conception and gestation, although, no signals fulfilling this function have bee ...[more]