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What has driven the evolution of multiple cone classes in visual systems: object contrast enhancement or light flicker elimination?

BACKGROUND: Two competing theories have been advanced to explain the evolution of multiple cone classes in vertebrate eyes. These two theories have important, but different, implications for our understanding of the design and tuning of vertebrate visual systems. The ‘contrast theory’ proposes that...

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Autores principales: Sabbah, Shai, Hawryshyn, Craig W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23826998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-11-77