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Deeb, S. S. (2010). Visual pigments and colour vision in marsupials and monotremes. In Marsupial genetics and genomics (pp. 403-414). Springer Netherlands.

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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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