L, M and L-M hybrid cone photopigments in man: deriving λ(max) from flicker photometric spectral sensitivities

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3513-3525

  Sharpe, Lindsay T ^a   Stockman, Andrew ^b   Jägle, Herbert ^a   Knau, Holger ^a   Nathans, Jeremy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Depts of Molec Biol and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Color matching; Cone fundamental; Deuteranopes; Dichromacy; L cones; Lens pigment; M cones; Macular pigment; Photopigment genes; Photopigments; Protanopes; Single gene dichromats; Spectral sensitivity

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; PIGMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION DEFECT; HUMAN; LENS; MALE; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ADULT; ALANINE; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; CONES (RETINA); FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; OPSIN; PHOTOMETRY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SERINE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032768573     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00061-9     Document Type: Article

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