Rods and cones in an enantiornithine bird eye from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota

Extant birds have an extensive spectral range of colour vision among vertebrates, but evidence of colour vision among extinct birds has hitherto been lacking. An exceptionally well-preserved extinct enantiornithine fossil bird from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation (120 Ma) of Liaoning, China...

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Autores principales: Tanaka, Gengo, Zhou, Baochun, Zhang, Yunfei, Siveter, David J., Parker, Andrew R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5772835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29387816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00479

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5772835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29387816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00479

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