Cone photoreceptor diversity in the retinas of fruit bats (Megachiroptera)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 90-104

  Müller, Brigitte ^a   Goodman, Steven M ^b,c   Peichl, Leo ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c WWF Antananarivo   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Color vision; Cone opsins; Flying foxes; Fruit bats; Megachiroptera; Photoreceptors; Retina; Visual pigments

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; CELL POPULATION; COLOR BLINDNESS; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VISION;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CONES (RETINA); OPSIN; RETINA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; EIDOLON; EIDOLON DUPREANUM; EPOMOPHORUS; EPOMOPHORUS GAMBIANUS; MAMMALIA; MEGACHIROPTERA; PTEROPODIDAE; PTEROPUS; PTEROPUS NIGER; PTEROPUS RODRICENSIS; PTEROPUS RUFUS; ROUSETTUS; ROUSETTUS MADAGASCARIENSIS;

EID: 34547755002     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000102971     Document Type: Article

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