Avian color vision and coloration: Multidisciplinary evolutionary biology

American Naturalist

Volumn 169, Issue SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Bennett, Andrew T D ^a   Théry, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COLOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISIBLE SPECTRUM; VISION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846224395     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/510163     Document Type: Article

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