[HTML][HTML] A review of the evolution of animal colour vision and visual communication signals

D Osorio, M Vorobyev - Vision research, 2008 - Elsevier
The visual displays of animals and plants are often colourful, and colour vision allows
animals to respond to these signals as they forage for food, choose mates and so-forth. This …

Structure and function of the retina in aquatic tetrapods

T Reuter, L Peichl - Sensory evolution on the threshold—adaptations …, 2008 - degruyter.com
The vertebrate retina is a well-layered structure with the photoreceptors (rods and cones)
lying close to the pigment epithelium, choroid, and sclera, and the retinal ganglion cells lying …

[HTML][HTML] Visual pigment and oil droplet characteristics of the bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), a new world migratory bird

RC Beason, ER Loew - Vision Research, 2008 - Elsevier
The retinal photoreceptors of a New World migratory bird, the bobolink (Dolichonyx
oryzivorus) were examined using microspectrophotometry. Based on the absorbance …

[PDF][PDF] Variabilita v barvě ptačích vajec

B Večlová - 2008 - dspace.cuni.cz
Avian eggshell colour may differ a lot, as well as the size and shape of patterning. Big
differences exist among species, but we can also find a huge intraspecific and even …