For whales and seals the ocean is not blue: a visual pigment loss in marine mammals*
- 1 April 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 13 (8) , 1520-1528
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.0953-816x.2001.01533.x
Abstract
Most terrestrial mammals have colour vision based on two spectrally different visual pigments located in two types of retinal cone photoreceptors, i.e. they are cone dichromats with long‐to‐middle‐wa...Keywords
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