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The aye-ayes have it: The preservation of color vision in a creature of the night
09-04-2007 · EurekAlert!Brian Verrelli and his ASU team have performed the first sweeping, genetic evolutionary study of color vision in the aye-aye (pronounced "eye-eye"), a bushy-tailed, Madagascar native primate. Verrelli, lead author George Perry, and collaborator Robert Martin's results, published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, have led to some surprising conclusions on how this unusual nocturnal primate may have retained color vision function.
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