Colour vision. Dalton's eyes and monkey genes

Curr Biol. 1995 Jun 1;5(6):583-6. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(95)00115-1.

Abstract

Recent molecular genetic studies show how changes in the protein component of a visual pigment alters its absorbance; they also explain the abnormal colour vision of one of the great pioneers of visual science.

Publication types

  • Biography
  • Historical Article
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cercopithecidae / genetics
  • Cercopithecidae / physiology*
  • Chemistry / history
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7
  • Color Perception / genetics*
  • Color Vision Defects / classification
  • Color Vision Defects / genetics*
  • Color Vision Defects / history
  • England
  • History, 18th Century
  • History, 19th Century
  • Humans
  • Mutation
  • Night Blindness / genetics
  • Protein Conformation
  • Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / physiology
  • Retinaldehyde / physiology
  • Rhodopsin / deficiency
  • Rhodopsin / genetics
  • Rod Opsins / chemistry
  • Rod Opsins / classification
  • Rod Opsins / genetics*
  • Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
  • X Chromosome

Substances

  • Rod Opsins
  • long-wavelength opsin
  • middle-wavelength opsin
  • short-wavelength opsin
  • Rhodopsin
  • Retinaldehyde

Personal name as subject

  • J Dalton