The uncommon retina of the common house mouse.
Unlike most mammals, most cones in house mouse retina express two opsins, one sensitive to UV-light, and another sensitive to middle-wavelengths. Is the mouse unique, having a single cone type that normally expresses two opsins? Or is the mouse a typical mammal having two cone types, but a species wide mutation results in co-expression of two opsins?
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Dept of Ophthalmology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226-4812, USA. mneitz@mcw.edu
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D000818:Animals; D003118:Color Perception / Q000235:genetics*; D015870:Gene Expression / Q000502:physiology; D051379:Mice; D009154:Mutation / Q000502:physiology; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D017299:Rod Opsins / Q000235:genetics*
D017299:Rod Opsins