Visual ecology: Coloured fruit is what the eye sees best

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2002, Pages

  Wolf, Kit ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COLOR; COLOR VISION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EYE; FRUIT; HUMAN; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EYE; FRUIT; HUMANS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0037007050     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00785-6     Document Type: Review

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