Kiwi forego vision in the guidance of their nocturnal activities

Graham Martin; KJ Wilson; JM Wild; S Parsons; MF Kubke; J Corfield

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000198

Kiwi forego vision in the guidance of their nocturnal activities

Graham Martin
, KJ Wilson
, JM Wild
, S Parsons
, MF Kubke
, J Corfield

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Abstract

We propose that the Kiwi visual system has undergone adaptive regression evolution driven by the trade-off between the relatively low rate of gain of visual information that is possible at low light levels, and the metabolic costs of extracting that information.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e198
Journal	PLoS ONE
Volume	2
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000198
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2007

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