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Notes and References:

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.

Deeb, S., Wakefield, M. J., Tada, T., Marotte, L., Yokoyama, S. & Marshall Graves J. A. (2003) The cone visual pigments of an Australian marsupial, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii): sequence, spectral tuning, and evolution. Mol. Biol. Evol. 20, 1642-1649.

Ghim MM, Hodos W (2006) Spatial contrast sensitivity of birds. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 192(5):523-34. doi:10.1007/s00359-005-0090-5

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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