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Avian Cone Photoreceptors Tile the Retina as Five Independent, Self-Organizing Mosaics

The avian retina possesses one of the most sophisticated cone photoreceptor systems among vertebrates. Birds have five types of cones including four single cones, which support tetrachromatic color vision and a double cone, which is thought to mediate achromatic motion perception. Despite this richn...

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Main Authors: Kram, Yoseph A., Mantey, Stephanie, Corbo, Joseph C.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813877/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20126550
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008992
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