For whales and seals the ocean is not blue: A visual pigment loss in marine mammals

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1520-1528

  Peichl, Leo ^a   Behrmann, Günther ^b   Kröger, Ronald H H ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Cone photoreceptors; Mammalian retina; Pinnipeds; Whales

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CARNIVORE; COLOR VISION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; RETINA CONE; SEAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; WHALE;

ANIMALS; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; CONES (RETINA); IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RODS (RETINA); SEALS, EARLESS; WHALES;

EID: 0035002620     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816x.2001.01533.x     Document Type: Article

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