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Evol Biol. 2013;40:542-553. doi: 10.1007/s11692-013-9230-y. Epub 2013 Apr 17.

Expression and Evolution of Short Wavelength Sensitive Opsins in Colugos: A Nocturnal Lineage That Informs Debate on Primate Origins.

Evolutionary biology

Gillian L Moritz, Norman T-L Lim, Maureen Neitz, Leo Peichl, Nathaniel J Dominy

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, The Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, 78 College Street, Hanover, NH 03755 USA.

PMID: 24293738 PMCID: PMC3832777 DOI: 10.1007/s11692-013-9230-y

Abstract

A nocturnal activity pattern is central to almost all hypotheses on the adaptive origins of primates. This enduring view has been challenged in recent years on the basis of variation in the opsin genes of nocturnal primates. A correspondence between the opsin genes and activity patterns of species in Euarchonta-the superordinal group that includes the orders Primates, Dermoptera (colugos), and Scandentia (treeshrews)-could prove instructive, yet the basic biology of the dermopteran visual system is practically unknown. Here we show that the eye of the Sunda colugo (

Keywords: Dermoptera; Primates; Retina; Scandentia; Visual pigment

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