Strawberry poison dart frog (Oophaga pumilio)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Sarcopterygii » Tetrapoda » Amphibia » Salientia

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
LWS cone561nm  561nm
Red rod491nm491nm
Rh2 cone489nm  489nm
SWS2 cone466nm  467nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
LWS cone   Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Red rod   Scotopic
Yellow-Aqua
574nm - 527nm - 479nm
 
LWS cone Rh2 cone Photopic
Green-Blue
550nm - 503nm - 456nm
 
Rh2 cone
LWS cone
SWS2 cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Siddiqi A., Cronin T.W., Loew E.R., Vorobyev M., Summers K. (2004) Interspecific and intraspecific views of color signals in the strawberry poison frog Dendrobates pumilio. Journal of Experimental Biology 207, 2471-2485. doi:10.1242/jeb.01047

Warrant E.J., Nilsson D.-E. (1998) Absorption of White Light in Photoreceptors. Vision Res., Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 195-207. PII: S0042-6989(97)00151-X

Stavenga D., Smits R.P., Hoenders B.J. (1993) Simple Exponential Functions Describing the Absorbance Bands of Visual Pigment Spectra. Vision Res. 33(8) pp. 1011-1017. doi:10.1016/0042-6989(93)90237-Q



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