Evidence for a sensitising pigment in fly photoreceptors
Abstract
Many photoreceptor cells in invertebrates have a dual-peak spectral sensitivity. Evidence is presented that in fly photo-receptors the ultraviolet peak is due to a photostable pigment that absorbs light quanta and transfers the energy to the blue-absorbing visual pigment.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- September 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1038/269386a0
- Bibcode:
- 1977Natur.269..386K