Eye shape and the nocturnal bottleneck of mammals

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1749, 2012, Pages 4962-4968

  Hall, Margaret I ^a   Kamilar, Jason M ^a,b   Christopher Kirk, E ^c  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional morphology; Mammals; Vision

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EYE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LIZARD; MAMMAL; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; SAMPLING; VISION;

EID: 84869100883     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2258     Document Type: Article

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