Avian cone photoreceptors tile the retina as five independent, self-organizing mosaics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Kram, Yoseph A ^a   Mantey, Stephanie ^a,b   Corbo, Joseph C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL TYPE; CHICKEN; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; EMBRYO; LUMINANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA CONE; VERTEBRATE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHICK EMBRYO; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; TIME;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

OIL; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OILS; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77749304940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008992     Document Type: Article

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