Absorption of white light in photoreceptors

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-207

  Warrant, Eric J ^a   Nilsson, Dan E ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Absorption coefficient; Photoreceptors; Self screening; Visual pigment; White light

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; INVERTEBRATE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; VERTEBRATE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; LIGHT; MATHEMATICS; PHOTORECEPTORS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0031986348     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00151-X     Document Type: Article

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