Photopic vision in eels: Evidences of color discrimination

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1048, Issue , 2005, Pages 69-84

  Damjanović, Ilija ^a   Byzov, Alexey L ^a   Bowmaker, James K ^b   Gačić, Zoran ^c   Utina, Iya A ^a   Maximova, Elena M ^a   Mićković, Branislav ^c   Andjus, Radoslav K ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Amacrine cells; Bipolar cells; Color vision; European eel; Horizontal cell; Microspectrophotometry; Spectral sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; COASTAL WATERS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EEL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPIC VISION; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINA ROD; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TELEOST;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 25144492138     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1342.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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