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Paper on evolution of mammal UV vision


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Spectral shifts of mammalian ultravioletsensitive pigments (Short wavelengthsensitive opsin 1) are associated with eye length and photic niche evolution.

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284185545_Spectral_shifts_of_mammalian_ultravioletsensitive_pigments_Short_wavelengthsensitive_opsin_1_are_associated_with_eye_length_and_photic_niche_evolution

 

It seems that UV vision is an ancestral mammal character, and that it was repeatedly lost during evolution, when mammal body size and their eye size increased and mammals turned from mostly nocturnal to mostly diurnal.

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