Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Identification of a protanomalous chimpanzee by molecular genetic and electroretinogram analyses.
- Journal:
- Vision research
- Year:
- 2005
- Authors:
- Terao, Kenichi et al.
- Affiliation:
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology · Japan
Abstract
We determined the structures of long (L)-wavelength-sensitive and middle (M)-wavelength-sensitive opsin gene array of 58 male chimpanzees and we investigated relative sensitivity to red and green lights by electroretinogram flicker photometry. One subject had protanomalous color vision, while others had normal color vision. Unlike in humans, a polymorphic difference in the copy number of the genes and a polymorphic base substitution at amino acid position 180 were not frequently observed in chimpanzees.
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