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Notes and References:

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Arrese C .A., Oddy A. Y., Runham P. B., Hart, N. S., Shand, J., Hunt, D. M., Beazley, L. D. Cone topography and spectral sensitivity in two potentially trichromatic marsupials, the quokka (Setonix brachyurus) and quenda (Isoodon obesulus). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2005;272(1565):791-796. doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.3009.

Srinivasan, S., Carlo, C. N., & Stevens, C. F. (2015). Predicting visual acuity from the structure of visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(25), 7815-7820.

Warrant E.J., Nilsson D.-E. (1998) Absorption of White Light in Photoreceptors. Vision Res., Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 195-207. PII: S0042-6989(97)00151-X

Stavenga D., Smits R.P., Hoenders B.J. (1993) Simple Exponential Functions Describing the Absorbance Bands of Visual Pigment Spectra. Vision Res. 33(8) pp. 1011-1017. doi:10.1016/0042-6989(93)90237-Q



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