title: Color vision: mice see hue too.
abstract: A transgenic mouse has been generated with three cone types, instead of the normal murine two. Remarkably, some of these mice use the extra cone to make trichromatic color discriminations similar to those that are the basis of human color vision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. bconway@hms.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Bevil R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Conway
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002415:Cats; D003118:Color Perception / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D003117:Color Vision Defects; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D005818:Genetic Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D011323:Primates / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D012168:Retinal Pigments / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D014785:Vision, Ocular
chemical_list: D012168:Retinal Pigments