Search Results - "Shand, Julia"
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The influence of ontogeny and light environment on the expression of visual pigment opsins in the retina of the black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-05-2008)“…The correlation between ontogenetic changes in the spectral absorption characteristics of retinal photoreceptors and expression of visual pigment opsins was…”
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Isolation and characterization of melanopsin (Opn4) from the Australian marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata (fat-tailed dunnart)
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-11-2007)“…Monodelphis domestica)…”
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Cone topography and spectral sensitivity in two potentially trichromatic marsupials, the quokka (Setonix brachyurus) and quenda (Isoodon obesulus)
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-04-2005)“…The presence of three cone types, along with previous findings in the fat-tailed dunnart and honey possum, suggests that three spectrally distinct cone types…”
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Changes in the visual environment affect colour signal brightness and shoaling behaviour in a freshwater fish
Published in Animal behaviour (01-03-2012)“…Aquatic organisms are exposed to highly variable light environments, which can affect the efficacy of colour patterns that are used for communication or…”
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The relationship between the position of the retinal area centralis and feeding behaviour in juvenile black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri (Sparidae: Teleostei)
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (29-09-2000)“…changes during development. The region of high cell density, the area centralis (AC), relocates from a temporal (central) to a dorsal (peripheral) position…”
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Interspecific variation in the visual pigments of deep-sea fishes
Published in Journal of Comparative Physiology A (01-07-1989)“…Visual pigments in the rods of 38 species of deep-sea fish were examined by microspectrophotometry. 33 species were found to have a single rhodopsin with a…”
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Ontogenetic changes in retinal structure and visual acuity : a comparative study of coral-reef teleosts with differing post-settlement lifestyles
Published in Environmental biology of fishes (01-07-1997)“…Changes in retinal structure during settlement were investigated in four species of tropical reef-associated teleost fishes with differing periods of…”
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Trichromacy in Australian Marsupials
Published in Current biology (16-04-2002)“…Vertebrate color vision is best developed in fish, reptiles, and birds with four distinct cone receptor visual pigments [1, 2]. These pigments, providing…”
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Spectral sensitivities of the seahorses Hippocampus subelongatus and Hippocampus barbouri and the pipefish Stigmatopora argus
Published in Visual neuroscience (01-05-2007)“…The Syngnathidae are specialized diurnal feeders that are known to possess a retinal fovea and use independent eye movements to locate, track, and strike…”
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Spectral absorbance changes in the violet/blue sensitive cones of the juvenile pollack,Pollachius pollachius
Published in Journal of Comparative Physiology A (01-01-1988)“…The authors have found that the short wavelength sensitive cones in the retina of the pollack (Pollachius pollachius ) shift in spectral absorption from a…”
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Developmental changes in the cone visual pigments of black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-12-2002)“…The spectral absorption characteristics of the visual pigments in the photoreceptors of the black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri Munro (Sparidae, Teleostei),…”
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Retinal characteristics of the ornate dragon lizard, Ctenophorus ornatus
Published in Journal of comparative neurology (1911) (02-09-2002)“…The retina of a diurnal insectivorous lizard, Ctenophorus ornatus (Agamidae) was investigated using microspectrophotometry and light and electron microscopy. A…”
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Morphology and spectral absorption characteristics of retinal photoreceptors in the southern hemisphere lamprey (Geotria australis)
Published in Visual neuroscience (01-03-2003)“…The morphology and spectral absorption characteristics of the retinal photoreceptors in the southern hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis (Agnatha) were…”
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Spectral sensitivity of larval and juvenile coral reef fishes: implications for feeding in a variable light environment
Published in Marine ecology. Progress series (Halstenbek) (26-04-2001)“…The spectral sensitivity of larval and juvenile stages of 3 species of coral reef fishes,Apogon compressus(Apogonidae),Pomacentrus amboinensis(Pomacentridae)…”
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Ontogenetic changes in the retinal photoreceptor mosaic in a fish, the black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri
Published in Journal of comparative neurology (1911) (20-09-1999)“…The morphological development of the photoreceptor mosaic was followed by light and electron microscopy in a specific region of dorsal retina of the black…”
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Vision in the southern hemisphere lamprey Mordacia mordax: spatial distribution, spectral absorption characteristics, and optical sensitivity of a single class of retinal photoreceptor
Published in Visual neuroscience (01-09-2004)“…The dorso-laterally located eyes of the southern hemisphere lamprey Mordacia mordax (Agnatha) contain a single morphological type of retinal photoreceptor,…”
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Changes in retinal structure during development and settlement of the goatfish Upeneus tragula
Published in Brain, behavior and evolution (1994)“…The retinal structure of the goatfish Upeneus tragula was examined at various stages of the fish's development from pre-settlement pelagic larvae to benthic…”
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Variability in the location of the retinal ganglion cell area centralis is correlated with ontogenetic changes in feeding behavior in the black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri (Sparidae, teleostei)
Published in Brain, behavior and evolution (01-04-2000)“…The development of neural cell topography in the retinal ganglion cell layer was examined in a teleost, the black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri). From…”
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Optics of the developing fish eye: comparisons of Matthiessen's ratio and the focal length of the lens in the black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri (Sparidae, Teleostei)
Published in Vision research (Oxford) (01-03-1999)“…Matthiessen's ratio (distance from centre of lens to retina: lens radius) was measured in developing black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri (Sparidae, Teleostei)…”
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The rod opsin pigments from two marsupial species, the South American bare-tailed woolly opossum and the Australian fat-tailed dunnart
Published in Gene (24-12-2003)“…Rod visual pigment genes have been studied in a wide range of vertebrates including a number of mammalian species. However, no marsupials have yet been…”
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