Photoreceptor sectral sensitivities in terrestrial animals: Adaptations for luminance and colour vision

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 2161, 2013, Pages 1745-1752

  Osorio, D ^a   Vorobyev, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Ecology; Evolution; Photoreceptor; Retina

Indexed keywords

COLOR; LUMINANCE; MAMMALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPETING REQUIREMENTS; EVOLUTION; LONG WAVELENGTH; PHOTOPIGMENTS; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS;

COLOR VISION;

EID: 26244462984     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3156     Document Type: Article

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