For Whales and Seals the Ocean is Not Blue: A Visual Pigment Loss in Marine Mammals
Most terrestrial mammals have colour vision based on two spectrally different visual pigments located in two types of retinal cone photoreceptors, i.e. they are cone dichromats with long-to-middle-wave-sensitive (commonly green) L-cones and short-wave-sensitive (commonly blue) S-cones. With visual p...
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.486.616 http://www-stud.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~krotzky/Neuro-Seminar/Peichl1.pdf |