Sensory drive, color, and color vision

American Naturalist

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 157-170

  Price, Trevor D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Color perception; Color vision; Opsin; Sensory drive; Sexual selection; Warblers

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DIVERGENCE; PASSERINE; PERCEPTION; PREDATOR; PROTEIN; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEXUAL SELECTION; VERTEBRATE; VISION;

VERTEBRATA;

OPSIN; SCOTOPSIN;

ANIMAL; COLOR; COLOR VISION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPSINS; ROD OPSINS;

EID: 85026313913     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/692535     Document Type: Article

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