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		im3w1l 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes > So, only some (heterozygous) females in these species typically have full trichromatic vision Wow that's wild how heterozygousity can be that helpful. Makes you wonder if there are other genes like that.

rozab 5 months ago [–]

Some human females have functional tetrochromatic vision.

https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2191517

im3w1l 5 months ago | [–]

No I meant like if there is some other gene where the two different variants are synergistic to each other.

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