Colour tuning mechanisms of visual pigments

Novartis Foundation Symposium

Volumn 224, Issue , 1999, Pages 124-141

  Lin, Steven W ^a   Sakmar, Thomas P ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); HUMANS; LIGHT; OPSIN; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 0033256995     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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