Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Sarcopterygii » Tetrapoda » Mammalia » Eutheria » Afrotheria » Proboscidea

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Yellow cone552nm  552nm
Rod496nm  498nm
Blue cone419nm  450nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Yellow cone   Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Green-Blue
556nm - 497nm - 448nm
 
Yellow cone Blue cone
(Rod)
Photopic
Cones-Rods
589nm - 537nm - 480nm
 
Yellow cone Rod Mesopic

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Notes and References:

Yokoyama, S., Takenaka, N., Agnew, D. W., & Shoshani, J. (2005). Elephants and human color-blind deuteranopes have identical sets of visual pigments. Genetics, 170(1), 335-344. DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.039511

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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