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Photonic Crystal Light Collectors in Fish Retina Improve Vision in Turbid Water by Kreysing, Moritz, Pusch, Roland, Haverkate, Dorothee, Landsberger, Meik, Engelmann, Jacob, Ruiter, Janina, Mora-Ferrer, Carlos, Ulbricht, Elke, Grosche, Jens, Franze, Kristian, Streif, Stefan, Schumacher, Sarah, Makarov, Felix, Kacza, Johannes, Guck, Jochen, Wolburg, Hartwig, Bowmaker, James K., von der Emde, Gerhard, Schuster, Stefan, Wagner, Hans-Joachim, Reichenbach, Andreas, Francke, Mike

“…Despite their diversity, vertebrate retinae are specialized to maximize either photon catch or visual acuity. Here, we describe a functional type that is…”
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Evolution of the cichlid visual palette through ontogenetic subfunctionalization of the opsin gene arrays by Spady, Tyrone C, Parry, Juliet W L, Robinson, Phyllis R, Hunt, David M, Bowmaker, James K, Carleton, Karen L

“…The evolution of cone opsin genes is characterized by a dynamic process of gene birth and death through gene duplication and loss. However, the forces…”
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Evolution of vertebrate visual pigments by Bowmaker, James K.

“…The visual pigments of vertebrates evolved about 500 million years ago, before the major evolutionary step of the development of jaws. Four spectrally distinct…”
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Mix and Match Color Vision: Tuning Spectral Sensitivity by Differential Opsin Gene Expression in Lake Malawi Cichlids by Parry, Juliet W.L., Carleton, Karen L., Spady, Tyrone, Carboo, Aba, Hunt, David M., Bowmaker, James K.

“…Cichlid fish of the East African Rift Lakes are renowned for their diversity and offer a unique opportunity to study adaptive changes in the visual system in…”
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Alouatta trichromatic color vision: cone spectra and physiological responses studied with microspectrophotometry and single unit retinal electrophysiology by Silveira, Luiz Carlos L, Saito, Cézar A, da Silva Filho, Manoel, Kremers, Jan, Bowmaker, James K, Lee, Barry B

“…The howler monkeys (Alouatta sp.) are the only New World primates to exhibit routine trichromacy. Both males and females have three cone photopigments…”
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Spectral Tuning of Shortwave-sensitive Visual Pigments in Vertebrates by Hunt, David M., Carvalho, Lívia S., Cowing, Jill A., Parry, Juliet W. L., Wilkie, Susan E., Davies, Wayne L., Bowmaker, James K.

“…Of the four classes of vertebrate cone visual pigments, the shortwave‐sensitive SWS1 class shows some of the largest shifts in λmax, with values ranging in…”
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The molecular mechanism for the spectral shifts between vertebrate ultraviolet- and violet-sensitive cone visual pigments by Cowing, Jill A, Poopalasundaram, Subathra, Wilkie, Susan E, Robinson, Phyllis R, Bowmaker, James K, Hunt, David M

“…The short-wave-sensitive (SWS) visual pigments of vertebrate cone photoreceptors are divided into two classes on the basis of molecular identity, SWS1 and…”
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The molecular basis for spectral tuning of rod visual pigments in deep-sea fish by Hunt, D M, Dulai, K S, Partridge, J C, Cottrill, P, Bowmaker, J K

“…Most species of deep-sea fish possess of a rod-only retina with a pigment that is generally shortwave shifted in lambda(max) towards the blue region of the…”
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Shortwave visual sensitivity in tree and flying squirrels reflects changes in lifestyle by Carvalho, Lívia dos S., Cowing, Jill A., Wilkie, Susan E., Bowmaker, James K., Hunt, David M.

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cone photoreceptors and visual pigments of chameleons by Bowmaker, James K, Loew, Ellis R, Ott, Matthias

“…Visual pigments, oil droplets and photoreceptor types in the retinas of four species of true chameleons have been examined by microspectrophotometry. The…”
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Developmental dynamics of cone photoreceptors in the eel by Cottrill, Phillippa B, Davies, Wayne L, Semo, Ma'ayan, Bowmaker, James K, Hunt, David M, Jeffery, Glen

“…Many fish alter their expressed visual pigments during development. The number of retinal opsins expressed and their type is normally related to the…”
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A Novel Amino Acid Substitution Is Responsible for Spectral Tuning in a Rodent Violet-Sensitive Visual Pigment by Parry, Juliet W. L, Poopalasundaram, Subathra, Bowmaker, James K, Hunt, David M

“…Cone short-wave (SWS1) visual pigments can be divided into two categories that correlate with spectral sensitivity, violet sensitive above 390 nm and…”
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Spectral Tuning of Avian Violet- and Ultraviolet-Sensitive Visual Pigments by Wilkie, Susan E, Robinson, Phyllis R, Cronin, Thomas W, Poopalasundaram, Subathra, Bowmaker, James K, Hunt, David M

“…The violet- and ultraviolet-sensitive visual pigments of birds belong to the same class of pigments as the violet-sensitive (so-called blue) pigments of…”
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Evolution of vertebrate visual pigments by Bowmaker, James K., Hunt, David M.

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Divergent mechanisms for the tuning of shortwave sensitive visual pigments in vertebrates by Hunt, David M, Cowing, Jill A, Wilkie, Susan E, Parry, Juliet W L, Poopalasundaram, Subathra, Bowmaker, James K

“…Of the four classes of vertebrate cone visual pigments, the shortwave-sensitive SWS1 class shows the shortest lambda(max) values with peaks in different…”
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Spectral Tuning and Evolution of Short Wave-Sensitive Cone Pigments in Cottoid Fish from Lake Baikal by Cowing, Jill A, Poopalasundaram, Subathra, Wilkie, Susan E, Bowmaker, James K, Hunt, David M

“…The cottoid fishes of Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia provide a unique opportunity to study the evolution of visual pigments in a group of closely related…”
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Retinal photoreceptors of paleognathous birds: the ostrich ( Struthio camelus) and rhea ( Rhea americana) by Wright, Mathew W., Bowmaker, James K.

“…Microspectrophotometry was used to determine the absorbance spectra of both rod and cone visual pigments and oil droplets from the retinae of the ostrich (…”
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Avian retinal oil droplets: dietary manipulation of colour vision? by Knott, Ben, Berg, Mathew L., Morgan, Eric R., Buchanan, Katherine L., Bowmaker, James K., Bennett, Andrew T. D.

“…Avian vision is highly developed, with bird retinas containing rod and double-cone photoreceptors, plus four classes of single cones subserving tetrachromatic…”
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Colour vision and speciation in Lake Victoria cichlids of the genus Pundamilia by CARLETON, KAREN L., PARRY, JULIET W. L., BOWMAKER, JAMES K., HUNT, DAVID M., SEEHAUSEN, OLE

“…Lake Victoria cichlids are one of the most speciose groups of vertebrates. Selection on coloration is likely playing an important role in their rapid…”
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How parrots see their colours: novelty in the visual pigments of Platycercus elegans by Knott, Ben, Davies, Wayne I L, Carvalho, Livia S, Berg, Mathew L, Buchanan, Katherine L, Bowmaker, James K, Bennett, Andrew T D, Hunt, David M

“…Intraspecific differences in retinal physiology have been demonstrated in several vertebrate taxa and are often subject to adaptive evolution. Nonetheless,…”
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