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SUBMITTER: Yovanovich CAM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7003468 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yovanovich Carola A M CAM Pierotti Michele E R MER Kelber Almut A Jorgewich-Cohen Gabriel G Ibáñez Roberto R Grant Taran T
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20200108 1918
The amount of short wavelength (ultraviolet (UV), violet and blue) light that reaches the retina depends on the transmittance properties of the ocular media, especially the lens, and varies greatly across species in all vertebrate groups studied previously. We measured the lens transmittance in 32 anuran amphibians with different habits, geographical distributions and phylogenetic positions and used them together with eye size and pupil shape to evaluate the relationship with diel activity patte ...[more]