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Visual Pigments of Crayfish

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Crayfish eye extracts contain two visual pigments resembling in spectrum vertebrate rhodopsin and iodopsin. In these crayfish, as in primates, the “iodopsin” appears to be the red sensitive pigment of colour vision.

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    GEORGE WALD

  2. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

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WALD, G. Visual Pigments of Crayfish. Nature 215, 1131–1133 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151131a0

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