Color vision and niche partitioning in a diverse neotropical primate community in lowland Amazonian Ecuador.

ABSTRACT: A recent focus in community ecology has been on how within-species variability shapes interspecific niche partitioning. Primate color vision offers a rich system in which to explore this issue. Most neotropical primates exhibit intraspecific variation in color vision due to allelic variation at the middle-to-long-wavelength opsin gene on the X chromosome. Studies of opsin polymorphisms have typically sampled primates from different sites, limiting the ability to relate this genetic diversity to niche partitioning. We surveyed genetic variation in color vision of five primate species, belonging to all three families of the primate infraorder Platyrrhini, found in the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve in Ecuador. The frugivorous spider monkeys and woolly monkeys (Ateles belzebuth and Lagoth

SUBMITTER: Veilleux CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8131790 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature