Manifestations of rod monochromacy

Color Research and Application

Volumn 26, Issue SUPPL., 2001, Pages

  Jägle, Herbert ^a   Kohl, Susanne ^a,b   Apfelstedt Sylla, Eckart ^a   Wissinger, Bernd ^a,b   Sharpe, Lindsay T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Laboratory for Molecular Genetics   (Germany)

Author keywords

CNGA3; Rod monochromacy; Total color blindness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003686563     PISSN: 03612317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1520-6378(2001)26:1+<::aid-col22>3.0.co;2-l     Document Type: Article

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