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Notes and References:

Jacobs, G. H., Deegan, J., Neitz, J., Murphy, B. P., Miller, K. V., & Marchinton, R. L. (1994). Electrophysiological measurements of spectral mechanisms in the retinas of two cervids: white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and fallow deer (Dama dama). Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 174(5), 551-557.

Yokoyama, S. & Radlwimmer, F. B. (1998) The "Five-Sites" Rule and the Evolution of Red and Green Color Vision in Mammals. Mol. Biol. Evol. 15(5):560-567. ISSN: 0737-4038

Douglas R.H., Jeffrey G. (2014) The spectral transmission of ocular media suggests ultraviolet sensitivity is widespread among mammals. Proc Roy Soc B 281(1780) doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2995

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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