Comment on "Emergence of novel color vision in mice engineered to express a human cone photopigment".
Jacobs et al. (Reports, 23 March 2007, p. 1723) reported that plasticity in the mammalian visual system permitted the emergence of "a new dimension of sensory experience" in mice genetically engineered to express a human long-wavelength-sensitive cone photopigment. However, neither neural plasticity nor a new dimension of sensory experience is required to explain their results.
Makous
Walter
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Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. walt@cvs.rochester.edu
D000818:Animals; D003118:Color Perception / Q000235:genetics; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D051379:Mice; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D012168:Retinal Pigments / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*
D012168:Retinal Pigments