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Shifting mirrors: adaptive changes in retinal reflections to winter darkness in Arctic reindeer
Arctic reindeer experience extreme changes in environmental light from continuous summer daylight to continuous winter darkness. Here, we show that they may have a unique mechanism to cope with winter darkness by changing the wavelength reflection from their tapetum lucidum (TL). In summer, it is go...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826237/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24174115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2451 |