A patchwork of cones

Heinz Wässle ()
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Heinz Wässle: the Max Planck Institut füsr Hirnforschung

Nature, 1999, vol. 397, issue 6719, 473-475

Abstract: Primates — humans, monkeys and apes — have a very different retinal structure to that of other mammals. We use a trichromatic system, made up of three types of cone cell with peak sensitivities in different regions of the visual spectrum. Now, using an imaginative new technique, we can take our first look at the arrangement of these cones in the living human retina.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/17216

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