Sentences with phrase «photopigments in»

Melanopsin is a member of the opsin family, and is more closely related to photopigments in invertebrate visual cells than to pigments in vertebrate visual (rod and cone) cells.

Another is that there may be photopigments in the eye called cryptochromes that detect the magnetic field chemically and provide a visual cue that an animal can use as a kind of compass.

Not exact matches

The monkeys» new color awareness emerged as soon as the photopigments were expressed in their retinas.

Twenty weeks later up to one third of the M - type cones in the animals» retinas had begun to express the L - type photopigment.

In one group of robins, the team removed cluster N, a brain region involved in processing signals from the «pair - forming photopigments» in the eyes thought to relay magnetic compass informatioIn one group of robins, the team removed cluster N, a brain region involved in processing signals from the «pair - forming photopigments» in the eyes thought to relay magnetic compass informatioin processing signals from the «pair - forming photopigments» in the eyes thought to relay magnetic compass informatioin the eyes thought to relay magnetic compass information.

Cryptochromes are photoactive pigments in the eye that have been proposed to function as circadian photopigments.

Each photopigment is sensitive to light of a particular wavelength, and the primate visual system detects colors by comparing the relative activity of cells in the retina that bear each of the three photopigments.

In the new experiment, vision scientist Gerald Jacobs at the University of California, Santa Barbara, teamed up with geneticist Jeremy Nathans at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland, and other colleagues to add a human photopigment gene to micIn the new experiment, vision scientist Gerald Jacobs at the University of California, Santa Barbara, teamed up with geneticist Jeremy Nathans at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland, and other colleagues to add a human photopigment gene to micin Baltimore, Maryland, and other colleagues to add a human photopigment gene to mice.

This is because melanopsin — a photopigment found in specialized cells of the retina involved in the regulation of circadian rhythms — is most sensitive to blue light.

The irradiance output in the range of 380 — 780 nm at 4 - nm intervals was converted to 1 - nm intervals for calculation of the human retinal photopigment illuminance measures (cyanopic, melanopic, rhodopic, chloropic, and erythropic lux)(35).