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Light Perception in Two Strictly Subterranean Rodents: Life in the Dark or Blue?

BACKGROUND: The African mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia) are strictly subterranean, congenitally microphthalmic rodents that are hardly ever exposed to environmental light. Because of the lack of an overt behavioural reaction to light, they have long been considered to be blind. However, recent an...

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Autores principales: Kott, Ondřej, Šumbera, Radim, Němec, Pavel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2911378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20676369
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011810

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