Photoreceptor-specific efficiencies of beta-carotene, zeaxanthin and lutein for photopigment formation deduced from receptor mutant Drosophila melanogaster.

doi:10.1007/BF00192014

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Photoreceptor-specific efficiencies of beta-carotene, zeaxanthin and lutein for photopigment formation deduced from receptor mutant Drosophila melanogaster.

Journal of comparative physiology. A, Sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology - 1 Feb 1990

Stark W S, Schilly D, Christianson J S, Bone R A, Landrum J T

Abstract excerpt

Drosophila rearing media had only beta-carotene, zeaxanthin or lutein as precursors for photopigment chromophores. Zeaxanthin and lutein are potentially optimum sources of the 3-hydroxylated retinoids of visual and accessory photopigments. Mutants made the electroretinogram in white (w) eyes sele...

Topics

Animals
Carotenoids
Drosophila melanogaster
Electroretinography
Lutein
Mutation
Photic Stimulation
Photoreceptor Cells
Retinal Pigments
Xanthophylls
Zeaxanthins
beta Carotene

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PMID: 2110249
DOI: 10.1007/BF00192014

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