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The Heterozygote Superiority Hypothesis for Polymorphic Color Vision Is Not Supported by Long-Term Fitness Data from Wild Neotropical Monkeys

The leading explanatory model for the widespread occurrence of color vision polymorphism in Neotropical primates is the heterozygote superiority hypothesis, which postulates that trichromatic individuals have a fitness advantage over other phenotypes because redgreen chromatic discrimination is usef...

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Autores principales: Fedigan, Linda M., Melin, Amanda D., Addicott, John F., Kawamura, Shoji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24404195
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084872