Single-photon sensitivity of lamprey rods with cone-like outer segments

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 484-487

  Morshedian, Ala ^a   Fain, Gordon L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGNATHA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); INVERTEBRATA; PETROMYZON MARINUS; PETROMYZONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; PETROMYZON; PHOTON; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; PETROMYZON; PHOTONS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84922933337     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.031     Document Type: Article

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