Double cones are used for colour discrimination in the reef fish, rhinecanthus aculeatus

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 537-539

  Pignatelli, Vincenzo ^a   Champ, Conor ^a   Marshall, Justin ^a   Vorobyev, Misha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Double cones; Fish

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COLOR MORPH; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLARIZATION; REPTILE; TELEOST; VISION;

AVES; REPTILIA; RHINECANTHUS ACULEATUS;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR VISION; CYTOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; TETRAODONTIFORMES;

ANIMALS; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; TETRAODONTIFORMES;

EID: 77954581974     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.1010     Document Type: Article

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