Visual pigment types and quantum-catch ratios: Implications from three marine teleosts

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-212

  Hárosi, Ferenc I ^a,b  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FISH; FLOUNDER; PHOTORECEPTOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; BASS; FISHES; FLOUNDER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTORECEPTORS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0030115721     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542540     Document Type: Article

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