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Red fluorescence in reef fish: A novel signalling mechanism?

BACKGROUND: At depths below 10 m, reefs are dominated by blue-green light because seawater selectively absorbs the longer, 'red' wavelengths beyond 600 nm from the downwelling sunlight. Consequently, the visual pigments of many reef fish are matched to shorter wavelengths, which are transm...

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Autores principales: Michiels, Nico K, Anthes, Nils, Hart, Nathan S, Herler, Jürgen, Meixner, Alfred J, Schleifenbaum, Frank, Schulte, Gregor, Siebeck, Ulrike E, Sprenger, Dennis, Wucherer, Matthias F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2567963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18796150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-8-16