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Honeybee photoreceptors
Description
Honeybee (Apis mellifera) photoreceptor sensitivity curves.
Usage
data("bee")
Format
A data frame with 401 observations on the following 4 variables.
Wavelength
a numeric vector
UV
a numeric vector
Blue
a numeric vector
Green
a numeric vector
Details
Original data were interpolated to 1nm intervals from 300 to 700nm.
Source
Chittka, L., and P. Kevan. 2005. Flower colour as advertisement. Pp. 157-196 in Practical pollination biology.
Examples
data("bee")
plot(bee[,2]~bee[,1], col = "violet", type="l", xlab="Wavelength(nm)", ylab= "Absorbance")
lines(bee[,3]~bee[,1], col = "blue", type="l")
lines(bee[,4]~bee[,1], col = "green", type="l")
[Package colourvision version 2.0.4 Index]