Photoreceptor types, visual pigments, and topographic specializations in the retinas of hydrophiid sea snakes

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 520, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1246-1261

  Hart, Nathan S ^a,b   Coimbra, João Paulo ^a,b   Collin, Shaun P ^a,b   Westhoff, Guido ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d Tierpark Hagenbeck gGmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cone photoreceptor; Eye; Microspectrophotometry; Retinal ganglion cell; Visual acuity; Visual ecology

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ACALYPTOPHIS PERONII; AIPYSURUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTEIRA MAJOR; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LAPEMIS CURTUS; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEA SNAKE; SNAKE; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STEREOLOGY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; ELAPIDAE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84856727998     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22784     Document Type: Article

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