In other species: Port Jackson shark , dusky shark , gummy shark , tiger shark , lemon shark , thresher shark , Japanese medaka , Tufted capuchin , crab-eating macaque , great white shark , shortfin mako shark , Australian swellshark

Categories: Vision / eye phene

Links to possible relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s) in OMIM: 303800 (trait)

Links to relevant human diseases in MONDO:

• MONDO:0001703: color vision disorder

Single-gene trait/disorder: yes

Mode of inheritance: X-linked

Disease-related: yes

Key variant known: no

Cross-species summary: Dichromatic colour vision is common in vertebrate species, including marine vertebrates. However, whales, dolphins, seals, and sharks are apparently colour blind.  Colour blindness can also be an inherited condition in species with dichromatic colour vision. Colorblindness; monochromacy; colour blind; color vision deficiency; CVD. 

Species-specific description: Yeh et al. (2023): "New-world primates such as the marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) show polymorphism for the middle- to long-wavelength sensitive cone pigments. Each X-chromosome carries a gene for only one of three possible pigments. All males are thus dichromats, but some females will be trichromats."