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SUBMITTER: Kojima K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5448186 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kojima Keiichi K Matsutani Yuki Y Yamashita Takahiro T Yanagawa Masataka M Imamoto Yasushi Y Yamano Yumiko Y Wada Akimori A Hisatomi Osamu O Nishikawa Kanto K Sakurai Keisuke K Shichida Yoshinori Y
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170508 21
Most vertebrate retinas contain a single type of rod for scotopic vision and multiple types of cones for photopic and color vision. The retinas of certain amphibian species uniquely contain two types of rods: red rods, which express rhodopsin, and green rods, which express a blue-sensitive cone pigment (M1/SWS2 group). Spontaneous activation of rhodopsin induced by thermal isomerization of the retinal chromophore has been suggested to contribute to the rod's background noise, which limits the vi ...[more]