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How bees distinguish colors

Behind each facet of the compound eye, bees have photoreceptors for ultraviolet, green, and blue wavelengths that are excited by sunlight reflected from the surrounding panorama. In experiments that excluded ultraviolet, bees learned to distinguish between black, gray, white, and various colors. To...

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Autor principal: Horridge, Adrian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539792
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/EB.S77973