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How bees distinguish black from white

Bee eyes have photoreceptors for ultraviolet, green, and blue wavelengths that are excited by reflected white but not by black. With ultraviolet reflections excluded by the apparatus, bees can learn to distinguish between black, gray, and white, but theories of color vision are clearly of no help in...

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Autor principal: Horridge, Adrian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539787
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/EB.S70522