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Selected Publications: Gerald H. Jacobs


Neitz, M., Neitz, J. and G. H. Jacobs (1991) Spectral tuning of pigments underlying red-green color vision. Science, 252, 971-974.

Jacobs, G. H., Neitz, J. and J. F. Deegan II (1991) Retinal receptors in rodents maximally sensitive to ultraviolet light. Nature, 353, 655-656.

Jacobs, G. H. (1993) The distribution and nature of colour vision among the mammals. Biological Reviews, 68, 413-471.

Jacobs, G. H., Neitz, M., Deegan, J. F. and J. Neitz (1996) Trichromatic colour vision in New World monkeys. Nature, 382, 156-158.

Jacobs, G. H. (1996) Primate photopigments and primate color vision. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 93, 577-581.

Jacobs, G. H., Neitz, M. and J. Neitz (1996) Mutations in S-cone pigment genes and the absence of colour vision in two species of nocturnal primate. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 263, 705-710.

Jacobs, G. H. (1998) Photopigments and seeing: Lessons from natural experiments. The Proctor Lecture. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 39, 2205-2216.

Jacobs, G. H., Fenwick, J. C., Calderone, J. B. and S. S. Deeb (1999) Human cone pigment expressed in transgenic mice yields altered vision. Journal of Neuroscience, 19, 3258-3265.

Jacobs, G. H. and J. F. Deegan II (2001) Photopigments and colour vision in New World monkeys from the family Atelidae.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 268, 695-702.

Jacobs, G. H., Deegan II, J. F., Tan, Y. and W.-H. Li (2002) Opsin gene and photopigment polymorphism in a prosimian primate. Vision Research, 42, 11-18.

Smallwood, P. M., Olveczky, B., Williams, G. L., Jacobs, G. H., Reese, B. E., Meister, M. and J. Nathans
(2003)  Genetically engineered mice with a novel class of cone photoreceptors:  Implications for the    
evolution of color vision.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 100, 11706-11711.

Jacobs, G. H.  (2004)  Comparative color vision.  In The Visual Neurosciences, Vol. 2 (eds. L. M. Chalupa and J. S. Werner).  Cambridge:  MIT Press, pp. 962-973.

Jacobs, G. H.  (2004)  Photopigment variations and the evolution of anthropoid vision.  In Anthropoid   
Origins:  New Visions (eds. C. F. Ross and R. F. Kay).  New York:  Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,  pp. 645-664.

Jacobs, G. H. and M. P. Rowe (2004) Evolution of vertebrate colour vision.  Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 87, 206-216.

Osorio, D., Vorobyev, M. and G. H. Jacobs (2005) The ecology of the primate eye:  Retinal sampling and colour vision. In: The Primate Visual System:  A Comparative Approach (ed. J. Kremers).  New York:  Wiley, pp. 99-126.

Jacobs, G. H. and J. F. Deegan II (2005) Polymorphic New World monkeys with more than three M/L cone types.  Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 22, 2072-2080.

Levenson, D. H., Ponganis, P. J., Crognale, M. A., Deegan II, J. F., Dizon, A. and G. H. Jacobs (2006) Visual pigments of marine carnivores:  Pinnipeds, polar bear, and sea otter.  Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 192, 833-843.

Jacobs, G. H. (2006) New World monkeys and color.  International Journal of Primatology, in press.


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