Mammalian vision: rods are a bargain.

Eric Warrant

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.031

Mammalian vision: rods are a bargain.

Eric Warrant

Lund Vision Group

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Abstract

To maintain resting potentials in darkness, rod and cone photoreceptors incur a significant energy cost. But in brighter light, rods become energetically 'cheaper' than cones, which might explain the evolution of the vertebrate duplex retina.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R69-R71
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	19
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.031
Publication status	Published - 2009

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