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Protanopia (red color-blindness) in medaka: a simple system for producing color-blind fish and testing their spectral sensitivity

BACKGROUND: Color perception is important for fish to survive and reproduce in nature. Visual pigments in the retinal photoreceptor cells are responsible for receiving light stimuli, but the function of the pigments in vivo has not been directly investigated in many animals due to the lack of color-...

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Autores principales: Homma, Noriko, Harada, Yumi, Uchikawa, Tamaki, Kamei, Yasuhiro, Fukamachi, Shoji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5294709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28166717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12863-017-0477-7