Visual pigments, cone oil droplets and ocular media in four species of estrildid finch

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 186, Issue 7-8, 2000, Pages 681-694

  Hart, N S ^a   Partridge, J C ^a   Bennett, A T D ^a   Cuthill, I C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bird; Colour vision; Microspectrophotometry; Photoreceptor; Retina

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE; EYE COLOR; FEATHER; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONES (RETINA); EYE; EYE COLOR; FEATHERS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RODS (RETINA); SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

AMADINA FASCIATA; ANIMALIA; AVES; ERYTHRURA GOULDIAE; ESTRILDIDAE; FRINGILLIDAE; LONCHURA MAJA; MAJA; NEOCHMIA MODESTA; PASSERI; PRUNUS DOMESTICA;

EID: 0033796451     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590000121     Document Type: Article

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