Crab eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Sarcopterygii » Tetrapoda » Mammalia » Eutheria » Euarchontoglires » Primates » Catarrhini » Cercopithecidae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Red cone561nm454,450,480nm511,480,505nm576nm
Green cone531nm454,450,480nm511,480,505nm550nm
Rod500nm  521nm
Blue cone415nm  443nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Green cone
Red cone
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Red-Green
621nm - 574nm - 525nm
 
Red cone Green cone Photopic
Yellοw-Blue
562nm - 501nm - 443nm
 
Green cone
Red cone
Blue cone
(Rod)
Photopic
Cones-Rods
597nm - 546nm - 495nm
 
Green cone
Red cone
Rod Mesopic

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Notes and References:

BOWMAKER J.K., DARTNALL H.J.A., MOLLON J.D. (1980) MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DEMONSTRATION OF FOUR CLASSES OF PHOTORECEPTOR IN AN OLD WORLD PRIMATE, MACACA FASCICULARIS J. Physiol. 298: 131-143

Ghim MM, Hodos W (2006) Spatial contrast sensitivity of birds. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 192(5):523-34. doi:10.1007/s00359-005-0090-5

Srinivasan, S., Carlo, C. N., & Stevens, C. F. (2015). Predicting visual acuity from the structure of visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(25), 7815-7820.

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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