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Nocturnality constrains morphological and functional diversity in the eyes of reef fishes

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, November 2011
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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Title
Nocturnality constrains morphological and functional diversity in the eyes of reef fishes
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, November 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-11-338
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Authors

Lars Schmitz, Peter C Wainwright

Abstract

Ambient light levels are often considered to drive the evolution of eye form and function. Diel activity pattern is the main mechanism controlling the visual environment of teleost reef fish, with day-active (diurnal) fish active in well-illuminated conditions, whereas night-active (nocturnal) fish cope with dim light. Physiological optics predicts several specific evolutionary responses to dim-light vision that should be reflected in visual performance features of the eye.

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Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 162 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 2%
Brazil 2 1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 151 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 28 17%
Student > Master 27 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 15%
Researcher 23 14%
Student > Postgraduate 9 6%
Other 30 19%
Unknown 20 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 88 54%
Environmental Science 18 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 5%
Neuroscience 8 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 7 4%
Other 9 6%
Unknown 24 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 19 February 2016.
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#2,276,886
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#571
of 3,714 outputs
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#15,704
of 244,546 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#10
of 59 outputs
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