title: Melanopsin phototransduction: great excitement over a poor catch.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK. timothy.brown@manchester.ac.uk
authors.forename: Timothy M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Lucas