Borges, Rui; Fonseca, João; Gomes, Cidália; Johnson, Warren E.; O'brien, Stephen J.; Zhang, Guojie; Gilbert, M. T.; Jarvis, Erich D.; Antunes, Agostinho
(2019)
Typical avian eyes are phenotypically engineered for photopic vision (daylight). In contrast, the highly-derived eyes of the barn owl (Tyto alba) are adapted for scotopic vision (dim light). The dramatic modifications ...