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French Guiana

Regan, B. C., Julliot, C., Simmen, B., ViÈnot, F., Charles-Dominique, P. and Mollon, J. D. (1998). Frugivory and colour vision in Alouatta seniculus, a trichromatic platyrrhine monkey. Vision Research 38, 3321-3327.

Mollon, J. D. and Regan, B. C. (1999) Spectralnue svojstva kolbochek i makularnogo pigmenta primatov - soglasovanu s okrugajucshim murom. Opticheskii zhurnal, 66, 3-9 [Translated in J. Optical Technol., 66, 847-852]

Regan, B. C., Julliot, C., Simmen, B., Viénot, F., Charles-Dominique, P. and Mollon, J. D. (2001). Fruits, foliage and the evolution of the primate colour-sense. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 356, 229-283.

Uganda

Sumner, P. and Mollon, J. D. (2000). Catarrhine photopigments are optimised for detecting targets against a foliage background. Journal of Experimental Biology 203, 1963-1986.

Sumner, P. and Mollon, J. D. (2000). Chromaticity as a signal of ripeness in fruits taken by primates. Journal of Experimental Biology 203, 1987-2000.

Sumner, P. and Mollon, J. D. (2003). Did primate trichromacy evolve for frugivory or folivory? In Mollon, J. D., Pokorny, J. and Knoblauch, K. (Eds) Normal and Defective Colour Vision, Oxford University Press, pages 21-30.

Sumner, P. and Mollon, J. D. (2003). The colors of primate pelage and skin: Objective assessment of conspicuousness. American Journal of Primatology 59, 67-91.

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