Licht-im-Terrarium: Literaturdatenbank
Licht-im-Terrarium: Literaturdatenbank |
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Jacobs, G. H. (2018). Photopigments and the dimensionality of animal color vision. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 86, 108–130. Added by: Sarina (2022-11-06 14:07:51) |
| Resource type: Journal Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.12.006 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 0149-7634 BibTeX citation key: Jacobs2018 View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: Englisch = English Creators: Jacobs Collection: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews |
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Early color-matching studies established that normal human color vision is trichromatic. Subsequent research revealed a causal link between trichromacy and the presence in the retina of three classes of cone photopigments. Over the years, measurements of the photopigment complements of other species have expanded greatly and these are frequently used to predict the dimensionality of an animal’s color vision. This review provides an account of how the linkage between the number of active photopigments and the dimensions of human color vision developed, summarizes the various mechanisms that can impact photopigment spectra and number, and provides an across-species survey to examine cases where the photopigment link to the dimensionality of color vision has been claimed. The literature reveals numerous instances where the human model fails to account for the ways in which the visual systems of other animals exploit information obtained from the presence of multiple photopigments in support of their behavior. Keywords: Animal color vision, Dimensionality of color vision, Photopigments, Opsin genes
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