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Why do seals have cones? Behavioural evidence for colour-blindness in harbour seals
All seals and cetaceans have lost at least one of two ancestral cone classes and should therefore be colour-blind. Nevertheless, earlier studies showed that these marine mammals can discriminate colours and a colour vision mechanism has been proposed which contrasts signals from cones and rods. Howe...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320766/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25452008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-014-0823-3 |