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Is the ultraviolet waveband a special communication channel in avian mate choice?

Authors: Sarah Hunt, Innes C. Cuthill, Andrew T. D. Bennett, Stuart C. Church, Julian C. Partridge

Publication/Journal: The Journal of Experimental Biology

Keywords: color vision, colour vision, mate choice, plumage color, plumage colour, ultraviolet, zebra finch

2001

Visual pigments and oil droplets from six classes of photoreceptor in the retinas of birds

Authors: JK, Bowmaker, LA, Heath, SE, Wilkie, DM. Hunt

Publication/Journal: Vision Research

Keywords: absorption, bird, budgerigar, colour vision, cone, double cone, long-wave, long-wave cone class, melopsittacus undulatus, microspectrophotometric, oil droplet, psittaciformes, retinal photoreceptors, shell parakeet, single cone, taeniopygia guttata, visual pigment, visualpigments, zebra finch

1996

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