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Avian Cone Photoreceptors Tile the Retina as Five Independent, Self-Organizing Mosaics
The avian retina possesses one of the most sophisticated cone photoreceptor systems among vertebrates. Birds have five types of cones including four single cones, which support tetrachromatic color vision and a double cone, which is thought to mediate achromatic motion perception. Despite this richn...
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Public Library of Science
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20126550 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008992 |