Advances in Photoreception

Committee on Vision, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Introduction; 3 Optical and Molecular Design of Rods; 4 Color and Wavelength Specificity of Receptors; 5 Cone Visual Pigments in Monkeys and Humans; 6 Photosensitivity of Primate Photoreceptors; 7 Transduction, Adaptation, and Disease Processes; 8 The ERG and Sites and Mechanisms of Retinal Disease, Adaptation, and Development; 9 Phototransduction in Vertebrate Rods: The Electrophysiological Approach to the cGMP Cascade Theory; 10 Partitioning Visual Processes; 11 Spatial Effects of Photoreceptor Mosaic; 12 The Distribution of Cones in the Primate Retina; 13 The Photoreceptor Mosaic as an Image Sampling Device; 14 The Invisible Cone Mosaic