Photoreceptors and photopigments in a subterranean rodent, the pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae)

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 125-134

  Williams, Gary A ^a   Calderone, Jack B ^a   Jacobs, Gerald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroretinogram; Photopigment coexpression; Photoreceptors; Thomomys bottae; Ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GOPHER; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GOPHERS; LIGHT; PHOTORECEPTORS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 17644382359     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-004-0578-4     Document Type: Article

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