Retinal cone topography of artiodactyl mammals: Influence of body height and habitat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 507, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1336-1350

  Schiviz, Alexandra Nathalie ^a   Ruf, Thomas ^b   Kuebber Heiss, Anna ^b   Schubert, Christian ^a   Ahnelt, Peter Kurt ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bovids; Color vision; Giraffe; Photoreceptor; Ungulates; Visual ecology; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; BEHAVIOR; BODY HEIGHT; BOVIDS; BRAIN REGION; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELEPHANT; HABITAT; LIFESTYLE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA CONE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; UNGULATE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ARTIODACTYLA; BIOMETRY; CELL COUNT; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 40949093123     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21626     Document Type: Article

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