Photoreceptors, visual pigments, and ellipsosomes in the killirish, Fundulus heteroclitus: A microspectrophotometric and histological study

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 403-420

  Novales Flamarique, Iñigo ^a,b   Hárosi, Ferenc I ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbance; Linear dichroism; UV and violet cones

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LINEAR DICHROISM; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE;

ANIMALS; KILLIFISHES; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ORGANELLES; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL PIGMENTS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0343953088     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800173080     Document Type: Article

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