Functional significance of the taper of vertebrate cone photoreceptors

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-187

  Hárosi, Ferenc I ^a   Flamarique, Iñigo Novales ^b  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84858114539     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 15407748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201110692     Document Type: Article

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