Trichromatic color vision with only two spectrally distinct photopigments

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 884-888

  Neitz, J ^a   Neitz, M ^a   He, J C ^b   Shevell, S K ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); RETINAL PIGMENTS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033306298     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/13185     Document Type: Article

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