Comparative anatomy and physiology of vision in aquatic tetrapods

Sensory Evolution on the Threshold: Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 121-147

  Kröger, Ronald ^a   Katzir, Gadi ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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