Diversity of mammalian photoreceptor properties: Adaptations to habitat and lifestyle?

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 287, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1001-1012

  Peichl, Leo ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color vision; Cone photoreceptors; Retina; Rod photoreceptors

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; BIODIVERSITY; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HABITAT USE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIFESTYLE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPIC VISION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA ROD; VERTEBRATE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; RODS (RETINA);

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA; VIOLA ADUNCA;

EID: 27644448081     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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