An unexpected advantage of whiteness in horses: The most horsefly-proof horse has a depolarizing white coat

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1688, 2010, Pages 1643-1650

  Horvath G ^a   Blahó, Miklós ^a   Kriska, György ^b   Hegedüs, Ramón ^c   Gerics, Balázs ^d   Farkas, Robert ^d   Åkesson, Súsanne ^e  

^a Department of Biological Physics   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^d SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Horses; Host choice; Polarization vision; Polarotaxis; Tabanid flies; Visual ecology

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLY; HORSE; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST SPECIFICITY; MORPHOLOGY; PREDATION RISK; SKIN DISORDER; SOLAR RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISION; VULNERABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA; TABANIDAE;

EID: 77953516804     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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