Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Actinopterygii » Neopterygii » Teleostei » Otocephala » Ostariophysi » Cypriniformes

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Double cone LWS564nm415,554,523nm440,575,555nm577nm
Rod502nm  505nm
Double cone MWS478nm415,554,523nm440,575,555nm478nm
SWS2 cone415nm  416nm
SWS1 cone362nm  361nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
  Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Yellow-Blue (double cones)
581nm - 525nm - 475nm
 
Double cone LWS Double cone MWS Photopic
Aqua-UV
489nm - 445nm - 369nm
 
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
SWS1 cone
SWS2 cone
Photopic
Indigo-UV
427nm - 392nm - 357nm
 
SWS2 cone SWS1 cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Chinen A., Hamaoka T., Yamada Y., Kawamura S. (2002) Gene Duplication and Spectral Diversification of Cone Visual Pigments of Zebrafish. Genetics 163: 663-675 ( February 2003)

Leon Nawrocki, Ruth Bremiller, Georg Streisinger, Michael Kaplan, Larval and adult visual pigments of the zebrafish, , Vision Research, Volume 25, Issue 11, 1985, Pages 1569-1576, ISSN 0042-6989, doi:10.1016/0042-6989(85)90127-0.

Robinson J., Schmitt E.A., Hárosi F.I., Reece R.J., Dowling J.E. (1993) Zebrafish ultraviolet visual pigment: Absorption spectrum, sequence, and localization. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 90, pp. 6009-6012, July 1993 Neurobiology

Hofmann, C.M., Carleton K.L. (2009) Gene duplication and differential gene expression play an important role in the diversification of visual pigments in fish. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49(6): 630-643. doi:10.1093/icb/icp079

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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