Is colour vision possible with only rods and blue-sensitive cones?

Abstract excerpt

At night all cats are grey, but with the approach of dawn they take on colour. By starlight, a single class of photoreceptors, the rods, function, whereas by daylight, three classes, the blue-, green- and red-sensitive cones, are active and provide colour vision. Only by comparing the rates of qu...

Topics

• Color Perception
• Color Vision Defects
• Humans
• Male
• Mutation
• Photoreceptor Cells
• Retinal Pigments
• X Chromosome