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| Title |
Kiwi Forego Vision in the Guidance of Their Nocturnal Activities
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, February 2007
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0000198 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Graham R. Martin, Kerry-Jayne Wilson, J. Martin Wild, Stuart Parsons, M. Fabiana Kubke, Jeremy Corfield |
| Abstract |
In vision, there is a trade-off between sensitivity and resolution, and any eye which maximises information gain at low light levels needs to be large. This imposes exacting constraints upon vision in nocturnal flying birds. Eyes are essentially heavy, fluid-filled chambers, and in flying birds their increased size is countered by selection for both reduced body mass and the distribution of mass towards the body core. Freed from these mass constraints, it would be predicted that in flightless birds nocturnality should favour the evolution of large eyes and reliance upon visual cues for the guidance of activity. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 123 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 3 | 2% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 111 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 26% |
| Researcher | 24 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 19 | 15% |
| Unknown | 17 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 64 | 52% |
| Neuroscience | 10 | 8% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 6 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 5% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 12 | 10% |
| Unknown | 21 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 May 2022.
All research outputs
#969,803
of 22,653,392 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#13,205
of 193,422 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,596
of 160,154 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#12
of 152 outputs
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