Mammalian vision: rods are a bargain.

Eric Warrant

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.031

Mammalian vision: rods are a bargain.

Eric Warrant

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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.

Originalspråk	engelska
Sidor (från-till)	R69-R71
Tidskrift	Current Biology
Volym	19
Utgåva	2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.031
Status	Published - 2009

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