title: Microspectrophotometric determinations of rod visual pigments in some adult and larval Australian amphibians.
abstract: Visual pigments from the red rods of adults of eight species of Australian anuran amphibians, from a variety of habitats, were analyzed by microspectrophotometry. The lambda max in all cases fell between 502 nm and 506 nm, and the absorption spectra were well fitted by an A1-based visual pigment template curve. Red rod pigments were also analyzed for a number of tadpoles. In some cases the data were best fitted with an A1-based visual pigment template, in other cases with an A2-based template, and finally some tadpoles appeared to have mixtures of the two pigments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Bristol, U.K.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Partridge
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Speare
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shand
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Muntz
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001001:Anura; D001315:Australia; D010786:Photoreceptor Cells / Q000737:chemistry*; D012168:Retinal Pigments / Q000032:analysis*; D013053:Spectrophotometry / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D012168:Retinal Pigments