Photoreceptors and visual pigments in the red-eared turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 753-757

  Loew, E R ^a   Govardovskii, V I ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Microspectrophotometry; Oil droplets; Retinal cones; Turtle; Visual pigments

Indexed keywords

OIL; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; RETINAL PIGMENTS; TURTLES;

EID: 0035726829     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523801185081     Document Type: Article

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