title: Light adaptation of discrete waves in the Limulus photoreceptor.
abstract: Light adaptation affects discrete waves in two ways. It reduces their average size and decreases the probability that a photon incident at the cornea causes a discrete wave. There is no effect of light adaptation on the latency of discrete waves, or on their time-course.
mesh_terms: D000221:Adaptation, Ocular; D000818:Animals; D003386:Brachyura / Q000502:physiology*; D008027:Light; D008433:Mathematics; D008839:Microelectrodes; D010786:Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors