Primate Fruit Color: Useful Concept or Alluring Myth?

摘要: While the importance of frugivorous primates as seed dispersers is well established, question extent to which they exert selective pressure on fruit color phenotypes contested. Numerous studies have identified suites primate colors, but lack agreement among them illustrates difficulty identifying match between foraging behavior and primate–plant coevolution. This may indicate that do not shape traits, at least in a consistent direction, or evolution affected by complex array selection pressures play only part. Here, we review role shaping context vision phenotypes, phenotypic constraints pressures. To test hypothesis subjected primates, offer six testable predictions aimed disentangling factors can contribute including animal mutualists, antagonists, developmental phylogenetic fruits. We conclude visual traits possible, more than previously thought.