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Evidence that eye-facing photophores serve as a reference for counterillumination in an order of deep-sea fishes

Counterillumination, the masking of an animal's silhouette with ventral photophores, is found in a number of mesopelagic taxa but is difficult to employ because it requires that the animal match the intensity of downwelling light without seeing its own ventral photophores. It has been proposed...

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Pubblicato in:Proc Biol Sci
Autori principali: Davis, Alexander L., Sutton, Tracey T., Kier, William M., Johnsen, Sönke
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: The Royal Society 2020
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7341941/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32517614
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2918
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