| Literature DB >> 10508742 |
F Pichaud1, A Briscoe, C Desplan.
Abstract
Color vision is achieved by comparing the inputs from retinal photoreceptor neurons that differ in their wavelength sensitivity. Recent studies have elucidated the distribution and phylogeny of opsins, the family of light-sensitive molecules involved in this process. Interesting new findings suggest that animals have evolved a strategy to achieve specific sensitivity through the mutually exclusive expression of different opsin genes in photoreceptors.Mesh：
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Year: 1999 PMID： 10508742 DOI： 10.1016/S0959-4388(99)00014-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Neurobiol ISSN： 0959-4388 Impact factor: 6.627