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Will he still look good with the lights on? Spectral tuning of visual pigments in fish
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* Corresponding author: Axel Meyer axel.meyer@uni-konstanz.de
Lehrstuhl für Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, D-78476 Konstanz, Germany
Journal of Biology 2008, 7:26 doi:10.1186/jbiol86
Published: 25 September 2008Abstract
Visual perception is a key element in evolution, as it is required for many life processes. Two recent studies in BMC Biology and BMC Evolutionary Biology shed light on the genetic determinants of color detection in strikingly colored fish.