title: Phototransduction: Making the Chromophore to See Through the Murk.
abstract: A candidate gene approach has finally identified the 3,4-dehydrogenase that converts vitamin A1 into vitamin A2 to supply the chromophore for rhodopsin that freshwater vertebrates need for long-wavelength vision.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Integrative Biology/Physiology and Ophthalmology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7239 USA. Electronic address: gfain@ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Gordon L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Fain
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D055537:Light Signal Transduction; D012243:Rhodopsin; D014714:Vertebrates; D014785:Vision, Ocular
chemical_list: D012243:Rhodopsin