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The Effects of Dietary Carotenoid Supplementation and Retinal Carotenoid Accumulation on Vision-Mediated Foraging in the House Finch

BACKGROUND: For many bird species, vision is the primary sensory modality used to locate and assess food items. The health and spectral sensitivities of the avian visual system are influenced by diet-derived carotenoid pigments that accumulate in the retina. Among wild House Finches (Carpodacus mexi...

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Main Authors: Toomey, Matthew B., McGraw, Kevin J.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Public Library of Science 2011
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3126843/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747917
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021653
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