Anatomical specializations for nocturnality in a critically endangered parrot, the kakapo (strigops habroptilus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Corfield, Jeremy R ^a   Gsell, Anna C ^b   Brunton, Dianne ^b   Heesy, Christopher P ^c   Hall, Margaret I ^c   Acosta, Monica L ^d   Iwaniuk, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIURNAL SPECIES; ENTOPALLIUM; EYE; KAKAPO; LIFESTYLE; MORPHOMETRICS; NOCTURNAL SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC TECTUM; ORBIT; PARROT; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA; ROTUND NUCLEUS; STRIGOPS HABROPTILUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HISTOLOGY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSITTACINE; VISION;

AVES; CAPRIMULGIDAE; PSITTACIDAE; STRIGIFORMES; STRIGOPS HABROPTILUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MALE; OPTIC NERVE; ORBIT; ORGAN SIZE; PSITTACIFORMES; RETINA; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 80051508393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022945     Document Type: Article

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