Analysis of the short wavelength-sensitive ('blue') cone mosaic in the primate retina: Comparison of New World and Old World monkeys

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 406, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-14

  Martin, Paul R ^a   Grünert, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Macaque; Marmoset; Photoreceptors

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLOR BLINDNESS; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MACACA; MALE; MARMOSET; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; CEBUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MALE; RETINA;

EID: 0345369737     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990329)406:1<1::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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