The Effects of Dietary Carotenoid Supplementation and Retinal Carotenoid Accumulation on Vision-Mediated Foraging in the House Finch

BACKGROUND: For many bird species, vision is the primary sensory modality used to locate and assess food items. The health and spectral sensitivities of the avian visual system are influenced by diet-derived carotenoid pigments that accumulate in the retina. Among wild House Finches (Carpodacus mexi...

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Autores principales: Toomey, Matthew B., McGraw, Kevin J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3126843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021653

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3126843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021653

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