Turkestan Thin-toed gecko (Tenuidactylus fedchenkovi)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Sarcopterygii » Tetrapoda » Diapsida » Lepidosauromorpha » Squamata » Gekkota

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Red rod535nm  535nm
Green rod451nm  451nm
Blue rod365nm  364nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Red rod   Scotopic
Green-Indigo
541nm - 491nm - 445nm
 
Red rod Green rod Scotopic
Blue-UVA
461nm - 410nm - 363nm
 
Green rod
Red rod
Blue rod Scotopic

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Notes and References:

Ellingson J.M., Fleishman L.J., Loew E.R. (1995) Visual pigments and spectral sensitivity of the diurnal gecko Gonatodes albogularis. J Comp Physiol A (1995) 177:559-567

Loew E.R., Govardovskii V.I., Röhlich P., Szél Á. (1996) Microspectrophotometric and immunocytochemical identification of ultraviolet photoreceptors in geckos. Visual Neuroscience 13(2): 247-256

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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