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Photoreceptor Evolution: Ancient ‘Cones’ Turn Out to Be Rods
- Source :
- Current Biology. 25:R148-R151
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2015.
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Abstract
- SummaryVertebrate rod photoreceptors are thought to have evolved from cone photoreceptors only after the divergence of the jawed and jawless fishes, but this idea is questioned by new evidence that the short ‘cones’ of jawless sea lampreys are physiologically equivalent to rods.
- Subjects :
- Photons
Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
genetic structures
biology
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
Vertebrate
Article
eye diseases
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Paleontology
Rod Photoreceptors
Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells
biology.animal
Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells
Animals
Petromyzon
sense organs
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
human activities
Sea lampreys
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09609822
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Biology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d0a7ebb9542a3731b176824df9ec8b02