Pigment mixtures and other determinants of spectral sensitivity of vertebrate retinal photoreceptors

Photoreceptors: Physiology, Types and Abnormalities

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  Isayama, T ^a   Makino, C L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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