Vertebrate vision: New light on the enigmatic double cone
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Vertebrate vision: New light on the enigmatic double cone
Abstract
Double cones have been described in the retinae of both fishes and tetrapods. While fish double cones are two closely attached single cones, the two members of tetrapod double cones each evolved to be distinctly different from all single cones.
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