Photopigments and seeing - Lessons from natural experiments: The proctor lecture

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2205-2216

  Jacobs, Gerald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLOR VISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MODEL; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ART; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; LIGHT; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; AWARDS AND PRIZES; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); FLORIDA; HUMANS; LIGHT; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PORTRAITS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC;

EID: 0031764873     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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