SPECTRAL TRANSMISSION OF THE OCULAR MEDIA OF THE PIGEON (COLUMBA-LIVIA)
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 19 (11) , 1382-1387
Abstract
Spectrophotometric and microspectrophotometric measures of relative spectral transmission were obtained from the cornea, lens and vitreous body and from the whole eye of young and adult pigeons. Transmission was above 90% throughout the visible spectrum and was maintained at or above 50% into the near-UV at 310 nm. No age-related changes in transmission were found. The pigeon apparently has behavioral UV-detection abilities.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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