The ecology of visual pigment tuning in an Australian marsupial: The honey possum Tarsipes rostratus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1803-1815

  Sumner, Petroc ^a   Arrese, Catherine A ^b   Partridge, Julian C ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Dichromacy; Ecology of vision; Long wave cone; Mammal; Middle wave cone; Optimisation; Trichromacy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; OPOSSUM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; RETINA CONE; TELEMETRY; VISION;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERS; OPOSSUMS; RADIOMETRY; TELEMETRY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; BANKSIA ATTENUATA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; TARSIPES ROSTRATUS;

EID: 20444496989     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01610     Document Type: Article

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