Burton, R.F. (2008) The scaling of eye size in adult birds: relationship to brain, head and body sizes. Vision Research, 48(22), pp. 2345-2351. (doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.08.001)
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Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2008.08.001
Abstract
Birds' eyes seem often to be about as large as head size allows and brain size is taken here as a measure of the ill-defined space that is available to accommodate them. In four data sets for non-passerines eye size relates more strongly to brain size than to body mass and most non-passerine data are consistent with eye:brain (or eye:head-space) isometry. Eye:body allometry thus seems to follow from a negative head-space:body allometry. In passerines the eye:brain size correlations seem to be secondary to strong eye:body, brain:body, and perhaps therefore head-space:body correlations, a difference attributed to the passerines' greater anatomical uniformity.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Burton, Dr Richard |
| Authors: | Burton, R.F. |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QL Zoology Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
| College/School: | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences |
| Journal Name: | Vision Research |
| Publisher: | Pergamon |
| ISSN: | 0042-6989 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1878-5646 |
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