Melanopsin phototransduction: great excitement over a poor catch.
A small subset of retinal output cells express the photopigment melanopsin, rendering them intrinsically light-sensitive. Recent work quantifies, for the first time, fundamental properties of their light response.
Brown
Timothy M
TM
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK. timothy.brown@manchester.ac.uk
Lucas
Robert J
RJ