Understanding the relationship between fruit colour and primate vision requires multiple lines of evidence. A reply to Heymann & Fuzessy

Renske E Onstein¹, Daphne N Vink², Jorin Veen², Christopher D Barratt¹, S G A Flantua³, Serge A Wich^{2

4}, W Daniel Kissling²

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¹ Evolution and Adaptation Group, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstraße 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
² Department of Theoretical and Computational Ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, PO Box 94240, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, PO Box 7803, 5020, Bergen, Norway.
⁴ School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK.

PMID: 33468009
PMCID: PMC7893271
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2981

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Understanding the relationship between fruit colour and primate vision requires multiple lines of evidence. A reply to Heymann & Fuzessy

Renske E Onstein et al. Proc Biol Sci. 2021.

. 2021 Jan 27;288(1943):20202981.

doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2981. Epub 2021 Jan 20.

Authors

Renske E Onstein¹, Daphne N Vink², Jorin Veen², Christopher D Barratt¹, S G A Flantua³, Serge A Wich^{2

4}, W Daniel Kissling²

Affiliations

¹ Evolution and Adaptation Group, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstraße 4, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
² Department of Theoretical and Computational Ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, PO Box 94240, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, PO Box 7803, 5020, Bergen, Norway.
⁴ School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK.

PMID: 33468009
PMCID: PMC7893271
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2981

No abstract available

Keywords: co-diversification; fruit colour; mutualism; palm; primate vision; seed dispersal.

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Comment on

Palm fruit colours are linked to the broad-scale distribution and diversification of primate colour vision systems.
Onstein RE, Vink DN, Veen J, Barratt CD, Flantua SGA, Wich SA, Kissling WD. Onstein RE, et al. Proc Biol Sci. 2020 Feb 26;287(1921):20192731. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2731. Epub 2020 Feb 26. Proc Biol Sci. 2020. PMID: 32097588 Free PMC article.
Are palms a good model to explain primate colour vision diversification? A comment on Onstein et al. 2020.
Heymann EW, Fuzessy LF. Heymann EW, et al. Proc Biol Sci. 2021 Jan 27;288(1943):20201423. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1423. Epub 2021 Jan 20. Proc Biol Sci. 2021. PMID: 33468014 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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