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Spectral tuning of shortwave-sensitive visual pigments in vertebrates.
Photochemistry and photobiology - 1 Jan 2000
Hunt David M, Carvalho Lívia S, Cowing Jill A, Parry Juliet W L, Wilkie Susan E, Davies Wayne L, Bowmaker James K
Abstract excerpt
Of the four classes of vertebrate cone visual pigments, the shortwave-sensitive SWS1 class shows some of the largest shifts in lambda(max), with values ranging in different species from 390-435 nm in the violet region of the spectrum to < 360 nm in the ultraviolet. Phylogenetic evidence indicates that the ancestral pigment most probably had a lambda(max) in the UV and that shifts between violet and UV have...
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