Blind free-living kiwi offer a unique window into the ecology and evolution of vertebrate vision

The first report of multiple, blind, wild birds in good health suggests vision is not necessary for the survival of kiwi.

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Autores principales: Moore, Bret A., Paul-Murphy, Joanne R., Tennyson, Alan J. D., Murphy, Christopher J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5602912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28915882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0424-0
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spelling pubmed-56029122017-09-20 Blind free-living kiwi offer a unique window into the ecology and evolution of vertebrate vision Moore, Bret A. Paul-Murphy, Joanne R. Tennyson, Alan J. D. Murphy, Christopher J. BMC Biol Comment The first report of multiple, blind, wild birds in good health suggests vision is not necessary for the survival of kiwi. BioMed Central 2017-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5602912/ /pubmed/28915882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0424-0 Text en © Murphy et al. 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Moore, Bret A.
Paul-Murphy, Joanne R.
Tennyson, Alan J. D.
Murphy, Christopher J.
Blind free-living kiwi offer a unique window into the ecology and evolution of vertebrate vision
title Blind free-living kiwi offer a unique window into the ecology and evolution of vertebrate vision
title_full Blind free-living kiwi offer a unique window into the ecology and evolution of vertebrate vision
title_fullStr Blind free-living kiwi offer a unique window into the ecology and evolution of vertebrate vision
title_full_unstemmed Blind free-living kiwi offer a unique window into the ecology and evolution of vertebrate vision
title_short Blind free-living kiwi offer a unique window into the ecology and evolution of vertebrate vision
title_sort blind free-living kiwi offer a unique window into the ecology and evolution of vertebrate vision
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5602912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28915882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0424-0
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