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Feathers with Ocular Architecture: Implications for Functional and Evolutionary Similarities of Visual Signals and Receptors

2009-06-01

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Studies of visual receptors typically assume that only functionally similar structures are relevant to the evolution of complex eyes. This approach ignores growing evidence that different functional classes of organs often share structural and developmental patterns that pertain to biological sameness (deep homology). However, the potential relevance of non-receptor structures to eye evolution remains largely unex...

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Literature Corpus work: 5ef0e401-76f2-5a25-8362-c2b60e0204b7
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-009-9059-6

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