(Hipposideros speoris)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Sarcopterygii » Tetrapoda » Mammalia » Eutheria » Laurasiatheria » Chiroptera » Hipposideridae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Yellow cone520nm  520nm
Rod500nm  501nm
Blue cone430nm  455nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Yellow cone   Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Green-Blue
540nm - 494nm - 450nm
 
Yellow cone Blue cone
(Rod)
Photopic
Cones-Rods
573nm - 525nm - 472nm
 
Yellow cone Rod Mesopic

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Notes and References:

Wang, D., Oakley, T., Mower, J., Shimmin, L. C., Yim, S., Honeycutt, R. L., Tsao, H., Li, W.-H. (2004) Molecular Evolution of Bat Color Vision Genes Mol. Biol. Evol. 21(2):295-302. 2004

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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