UVS is rare in seabirds

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1333-1337

  Machovsky Capuska, Gabriel E ^a   Huynen, Leon ^b   Lambert, David ^b   Raubenheimer, David ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Albatross; Gulls; Phylogeny; Seabirds; SWS1 opsin; UVS; VS

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; OPSIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FORAGING; HYDROPROGNE CASPIA; LARIDAE; LARUS DOMINICANUS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STERNA STRIATA; STERNIDAE; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; ULTRAVIOLET SENSITIVE VISION; VISION;

EID: 82755162453     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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