Coloured oil droplets enhance colour discrimination

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1521, 2003, Pages 1255-1261

  Vorobyev, Misha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birds; Colour vision; Evolution; Oil droplets; Reptiles

Indexed keywords

OIL;

BIRD; COLOR; EVOLUTION; EYE; REPTILE; VISION;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; LIGHT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; RETINA; RETINA CONE;

AVES; REPTILIA;

EID: 0037899597     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2381     Document Type: Article

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