Low retinal noise in animals with low body temperature allows high visual sensitivity

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• Publication year

  1988

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1988-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/334348a0PMID 3134619
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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