Evolution of color visione

Franck Pichaud; Adriana Briscoe; Claude Desplan

doi:10.1016/S0959-4388(99)00014-8

Evolution of color visione

Franck Pichaud, Adriana Briscoe, Claude Desplan

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Abstract

Color vision is achieved by comparing the inputs from retinal photoreceptor neurons that differ in their wavelength seansitivity. Recent studies have elucidated the distribution and phylogeny of opsins, the family of light-sensitive molecules involved in this process. Interesting new findings suggest that animals have evolved a strategy to achieve specific sensitivity through the mutually exclusive expression of different opsin genes in photoreceptors.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	622-627
Number of pages	6
Journal	Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Volume	9
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0959-4388(99)00014-8
State	Published - Oct 1 1999

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