Evolution of Visual and Non-visual Pigments

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hunt, David M. (Editor), Hankins, Mark W. (Editor), Collin, Shaun P. (Editor), Marshall, N. Justin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Series in Vision Research ; 4
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Ophthalmology.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Cell Biology.

Photopigments are molecules that react to light and mediate a number of processes and behaviours in animals. Visual pigments housed within the photoreceptors of the eye, such as the rods and cones in vertebrates are the best known, however, visual pigments are increasingly being found in other tissu...