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Mammalian vision: rods are a bargain.

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Summary, in English

To maintain resting potentials in darkness, rod and cone photoreceptors incur a significant energy cost. But in brighter light, rods become energetically 'cheaper' than cones, which might explain the evolution of the vertebrate duplex retina.

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

69-71

Publication/Series

Current Biology

Volume

19

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Zoology

Status

Published

Research group

  • Lund Vision Group

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1879-0445