Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys elegans)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Chordata » Osteichthyes » Sarcopterygii » Tetrapoda » Mammalia » Marsupialia » Didelphimorphia

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Yellow cone555nm  555nm
Rod505nm  505nm
SWS cone360nm  370nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance (photopic)
Yellow cone   Photopic
Luminance (scotopic)
Rod   Scotopic
Green-UVA
555nm - 423nm - 369nm
 
Yellow cone SWS cone
(Rod)
Photopic

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Notes and References:

Palacios, A. G., Bozinovic, F., Vielma, A., Arrese, C. A., Hunt, D. M. and Peichl, L. (2010) Retinal photoreceptor arrangement, SWS1 and LWS opsin sequence, and electroretinography in the South American marsupial Thylamys elegans (Waterhouse, 1839). J. Comp. Neurol., 518: 1589–1602. doi:10.1002/cne.22292

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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