Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Actinopterygii » Neopterygii » Teleostei » Otocephala » Clupeiformes

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Double cone LWS550nm  550nm
Double cone MWS510nm  510nm
SWS2 cone455nm  456nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
  Photopic
Yellow-Cyan (double cones)
577nm - 534nm - 490nm
 
Double cone LWS Double cone MWS Photopic
Green-Blue
538nm - 494nm - 448nm
 
Double cone LWS
Double cone MWS
SWS2 cone Photopic

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Notes and References:

Lythgoe J.N., Partridge J.C. (1989) Visual Pigments and the Acquisition of Visual Information. J. exp. Biol. 146: 1-20

Losey, G. S., McFarland, W. N., Loew, E. E., Zamzow, J. P., Nelson, P. A., Marshall, N. J. Visual Biology of Hawaiian Coral Reef Fishes. I. Ocular Transmission and Visual Pigments (2003) Copeia, 2003(3):433-454

Miller TJ, Crowder LB, Rice JA (1991) Ontogenic Changes in Behavioral and Histological Measures of Visual Acuity in Three Species of Fish. Environmental Biology of Fishes 37:1-8 (1993)

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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