Evolution of human colour vision other two human opsins. Middle Wavelength Sensitive Opsin (Green-sensitive opsin) – Encoded by the OPN1MW gene with a λmax of 530 found in the green region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Short Wavelength Sensitive Opsin (Blue opsin) – Encoded by the OPN1SW gene with a λmax of 430 found in the blue region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Certain parts of opsin genes and the vision of various species, including humans, has been known to change over time with different environmental changes. Recent studies have shown that primitive nocturnal mammalian ancestors had dichromatic vision consisting of UV–sensitive and red–sensitive traits. A change
Evolution of human colour vision hypothesized that T285A was one of the first two mutations because absolute max values would be between 532-538 which is close to the absolute value found in human middle wavelength opsins. Normal human trichromats require a mixture of three primary colours for every day colour vision. Protanopes, deuteranopes and tritanopes are all dichromats, meaning they use a mixture of two primary colours to match any specific colour that they see. Thus, they are missing one of the three wavelength sensitive cones. Trichromats with all three cone pigments intact can generally see minimum wavelength differences between <1 and <3 for wavelengths