Loss of Olfactory Receptor Genes Coincides with the Acquisition of Full Trichromatic Vision in Primates

Yoav Gilad; Victor Wiebe; Molly Przeworski; Doron Lancet; Svante Pääbo

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020005

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Loss of Olfactory Receptor Genes Coincides with the Acquisition of Full Trichromatic Vision in Primates

Yoav Gilad ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gilad@eva.mpg.de

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Victor Wiebe,

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Molly Przeworski,

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Doron Lancet,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Svante Pääbo

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Loss of Olfactory Receptor Genes Coincides with the Acquisition of Full Trichromatic Vision in Primates

Yoav Gilad,
Victor Wiebe,
Molly Przeworski,
Doron Lancet,
Svante Pääbo

Published: January 20, 2004
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020005

About the Authors

Yoav Gilad

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gilad@eva.mpg.de

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Victor Wiebe

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Molly Przeworski

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Doron Lancet

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Svante Pääbo

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no conflicts of interest exist.

Author Contributions

YG and MP conceived and designed the experiments. YG and VW performed the experiments. YG and VW analyzed the data. SP contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. YG, MP, DL, and SP wrote the paper.

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