title: Photopic vision in eels: evidences of color discrimination.
abstract: Several classes of second-order retinal neurons have been studied electrophysiologically in European eel (Anguilla anguilla) from two different localities, Lake Seliger in Russia and the coastal waters of the Adriatic Sea in Montenegro. The majority of L-horizontal cells (68 explored) had both rod and cone inputs, an uncommon phenomenon among teleosts. Pronounced color-opponent properties, often taken as pointing to the capacity of color vision, were identified in one amacrine cell, apparently of the "blue/yellow" (or "blue/green") type. Microspectrophotometric measurements revealed two different spectral classes of cones with absorption maxima at about 525 and 434 nm. The existence of green-sensitive and blue-sensitive cone units was thus revealed by both electrophysiological and microspectrophotometric techniques.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Problems of Information Transmission, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: Ilija
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Damjanović
authors.forename: Alexey L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Byzov
authors.forename: James K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Bowmaker
authors.forename: Zoran
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gacić
authors.forename: Iya A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Utina
authors.forename: Elena M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Maximova
authors.forename: Branislav
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Micković
authors.forename: Radoslav K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Andjus
mesh_terms: D000221:Adaptation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D015350:Contrast Sensitivity / Q000502:physiology; D004524:Eels; D004594:Electrophysiology; D004596:Electroretinography; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012160:Retina / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D012426:Russia; D013053:Spectrophotometry; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D015022:Yugoslavia