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  1. Evolution of the calcium feedback steps of vertebrate phototransduction
  2. Evolution of the shut-off steps of vertebrate phototransduction
  3. Genome-wide linkage and haplotype sharing analysis implicates the MCDR3 locus as a candidate region for a developmental macular disorder in association with digit abnormalities
  4. Visual pigments in a palaeognath bird, the emuDromaius novaehollandiae: implications for spectral sensitivity and the origin of ultraviolet vision
  5. How parrots see their colours: novelty in the visual pigments of Platycercus elegans
  6. S cones: Evolution, retinal distribution, development, and spectral sensitivity
  7. Retinal Amino Acid Neurochemistry of the Southern Hemisphere Lamprey, Geotria australis
  8. X-linked cone dystrophy and colour vision deficiency arising from a missense mutation in a hybrid L/M cone opsin gene
  9. Variations in Opsin Coding Sequences Cause X-Linked Cone Dysfunction Syndrome with Myopia and Dichromacy
  10. Evolution and Functional Characterisation of Melanopsins in a Deep-Sea Chimaera (Elephant Shark, Callorhinchus milii)
  11. The Effect of Cone Opsin Mutations on Retinal Structure and the Integrity of the Photoreceptor Mosaic
  12. Functional Analysis of Missense Mutations in Kv8.2 Causing Cone Dystrophy with Supernormal Rod Electroretinogram
  13. Cone monochromacy and visual pigment spectral tuning in wobbegong sharks
  14. Molecular ecology and adaptation of visual photopigments in craniates
  15. Anion sensitivity and spectral tuning of middle- and long-wavelength-sensitive (MWS/LWS) visual pigments
  16. Spectral tuning and evolution of primate short-wavelength-sensitive visual pigments
  17. Arctic reindeer extend their visual range into the ultraviolet
  18. Dominant Cone-Rod Dystrophy: A Mouse Model Generated by Gene Targeting of the GCAP1/Guca1a Gene
  19. Identification and characterization of visual pigments in caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), an order of limbless vertebrates with rudimentary eyes
  20. Extended extraocular phenotype of PROM1 mutation in kindreds with known autosomal dominant macular dystrophy
  21. ThePROM1Mutation p.R373C Causes an Autosomal Dominant Bull's Eye Maculopathy Associated with Rod, Rod–Cone, and Macular Dystrophy
  22. Ultraviolet-sensitive vision in long-lived birds
  23. Retinal photoreceptor arrangement, SWS1 and LWS opsin sequence, and electroretinography in the South American marsupialThylamys elegans(Waterhouse, 1839)
  24. “CONE DYSTROPHY WITH SUPERNORMAL ROD ELECTRORETINOGRAM”: A COMPREHENSIVE GENOTYPE/PHENOTYPE STUDY INCLUDING FUNDUS AUTOFLUORESCENCE AND EXTENSIVE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
  25. Developmental dynamics of cone photoreceptors in the eel
  26. A Mutant Connexin50 with Enhanced Hemichannel Function Leads to Cell Death
  27. Guanylate cyclases and associated activator proteins in retinal disease
  28. Evolution and spectral tuning of visual pigments in birds and mammals
  29. The evolution of early vertebrate photoreceptors
  30. Shedding Light on Serpent Sight: The Visual Pigments of Henophidian Snakes
  31. Adaptive Gene Loss Reflects Differences in the Visual Ecology of Basal Vertebrates
  32. Evaluation of the X-Linked High-Grade Myopia Locus (MYP1) with Cone Dysfunction and Color Vision Deficiencies
  33. Cone visual pigments in two species of South American marsupials
  34. Into the blue: Gene duplication and loss underlie color vision adaptations in a deep-sea chimaera, the elephant shark Callorhinchus milii
  35. Cone visual pigments in two marsupial species: the fat-tailed dunnart ( Sminthopsis crassicaudata ) and the honey possum ( Tarsipes rostratus )
  36. Mutant prominin 1 found in patients with macular degeneration disrupts photoreceptor disk morphogenesis in mice
  37. The influence of ontogeny and light environment on the expression of visual pigment opsins in the retina of the black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri
  38. Phenotypic Variation in Enhanced S-cone Syndrome
  39. Enzyme Sequence and Its Relationship to Hyperbaric Stability of Artificial and Natural Fish Lactate Dehydrogenases
  40. Eel visual pigments revisited: The fate of retinal cones during metamorphosis
  41. Clinical characterization and genetic mapping of North Carolina macular dystrophy
  42. SPLICE: A technique for generating in vitro spliced coding sequences from genomic DNA
  43. A novel connexin50 mutation associated with congenital nuclear pulverulent cataracts
  44. The visual pigments of a deep-sea teleost, the pearl eye Scopelarchus analis
  45. The Molecular Evolution of Avian Ultraviolet- and Violet-Sensitive Visual Pigments
  46. Functional characterization, tuning, and regulation of visual pigment gene expression in an anadromous lamprey
  47. Spectral Tuning of Shortwave-sensitive Visual Pigments in Vertebrates†
  48. Visual pigments of the platypus: A novel route to mammalian colour vision
  49. Genetic enhancement of cognition in a kindred with cone-rod dystrophy due to RIMS1 mutation
  50. Spectral tuning of the long wavelength-sensitive cone pigment in four Australian marsupials
  51. Evolution of the Cichlid Visual Palette through Ontogenetic Subfunctionalization of the Opsin Gene Arrays
  52. Progressive Cone and Cone-Rod Dystrophies: Phenotypes and Underlying Molecular Genetic Basis
  53. A study of the nuclear trafficking of the splicing factor protein PRPF31 linked to autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (ADRP)
  54. Colour vision and speciation in Lake Victoria cichlids of the genus Pundamilia
  55. Mix and Match Color Vision: Tuning Spectral Sensitivity by Differential Opsin Gene Expression in Lake Malawi Cichlids
  56. Isolation and characterization of murine Cds (CDP-diacylglycerol synthase) 1 and 2
  57. X-Linked Cone Dysfunction Syndrome with Myopia and Protanopia
  58. A novel GJA8 mutation is associated with autosomal dominant lamellar pulverulent cataract: further evidence for gap junction dysfunction in human cataract
  59. Cone topography and spectral sensitivity in two potentially trichromatic marsupials, the quokka ( Setonix brachyurus ) and quenda ( Isoodon obesulus )
  60. A detailed phenotypic study of "cone dystrophy with supernormal rod ERG"
  61. Chromosomal localization, genomic organization and evolution of the genes encoding human phosphatidylinositol transfer protein membrane-associated (PITPNM) 1, 2 and 3
  62. Purification, characterisation and intracellular localisation of aryl hydrocarbon interacting protein-like 1 (AIPL1) and effects of mutations associated with inherited retinal dystrophies
  63. An autosomal recessive cone-rod dystrophy associated with amelogenesis imperfecta
  64. Blue cone monochromatism: a phenotype and genotype assessment with evidence of progressive loss of cone function in older individuals
  65. The cone dysfunction syndromes
  66. Achromatopsia caused by novel mutations in both CNGA3 and CNGB3
  67. Divergent mechanisms for the tuning of shortwave sensitive visual pigments in vertebrates
  68. The rod opsin pigments from two marsupial species, the South American bare-tailed woolly opossum and the Australian fat-tailed dunnart
  69. Ancient colour vision: multiple opsin genes in the ancestral vertebrates
  70. Cone dystrophy phenotype associated with a frameshift mutation (M280fsX291) in the  -subunit of cone specific transducin (GNAT2)
  71. Expression ofPRPF31mRNA in Patients with Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa: A Molecular Clue for Incomplete Penetrance?
  72. The genetics of inherited macular dystrophies
  73. An Early-Onset Autosomal Dominant Macular Dystrophy (MCDR3) Resembling North Carolina Macular Dystrophy Maps to Chromosome 5
  74. An Autosomal Dominant Bull’s-Eye Macular Dystrophy (MCDR2) that Maps to the Short Arm of Chromosome 4
  75. Genomic organisation and alternative splicing of human RIM1, a gene implicated in autosomal dominant cone-rod dystrophy (CORD7)☆
  76. Genomic Organization of Human CDS2 and Evaluation as a Candidate Gene for Corneal Hereditary Endothelial Dystrophy 2 on Chromosome 20p13
  77. The molecular mechanism for the spectral shifts between vertebrate ultraviolet- and violet-sensitive cone visual pigments
  78. Mapping of a novel locus for achromatopsia (ACHM4) to 1p and identification of a germline mutation in the alpha subunit of cone transducin (GNAT2)
  79. Characterisation of two genes for guanylate cyclase activator protein (GCAP1 and GCAP2) in the Japanese pufferfish, Fugu rubripes
  80. Metallothionein Protects Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells Against Apoptosis and Oxidative Stress
  81. Vision in the ultraviolet
  82. Clustering and frequency of mutations in the retinal guanylate cyclase (GUCY2D) gene in patients with dominant cone-rod dystrophies
  83. Identification and Functional Consequences of a New Mutation (E155G) in the Gene for GCAP1 That Causes Autosomal Dominant Cone Dystrophy
  84. Interactions within the Coiled-coil Domain of RetGC-1 Guanylyl Cyclase Are Optimized for Regulation Rather than for High Affinity
  85. Characterization of a Novel Human Opsin Gene with Wide Tissue Expression and Identification of Embedded and Flanking Genes on Chromosome 1q43
  86. The destabilization of human GCAP1 by a proline to leucine mutation might cause cone-rod dystrophy
  87. Assignment1 of panopsin (OPN3) to human chromosome band 1q43 by in situ hybridization and somatic cell hybrids
  88. Visual responses of ganglion cells of a New-World primate, the capuchin monkey,Cebus apella
  89. Genomic Organization and Amplification of the Human Desmosomal Cadherin Genes DSC1 and DSC3, Encoding Desmocollin Types 1 and 3
  90. Spectral Tuning of Avian Violet- and Ultraviolet-Sensitive Visual Pigments
  91. Restoration of photoreceptor ultrastructure and function in retinal degeneration slow mice by gene therapy
  92. Assignment1 of Claudin-1 (CLDN1) to human chromosome 3q28→q29 with somatic cell hybrids
  93. A cluster of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the 5′-leader of the human dopamine D3 receptor gene (DRD3) and its relationship to schizophrenia
  94. Biochemical analysis of a dimerization domain mutation in RetGC-1 associated with dominant cone–rod dystrophy
  95. Enhanced retinal longwave sensitivity using a chlorophyll-derived photosensitiser in Malacosteus niger, a deep-sea dragon fish with far red bioluminescence
  96. Visual pigments and oil droplets in the retina of a passerine bird, the canary Serinus canaria: microspectrophotometry and opsin sequences
  97. DNA fingerprinting reveals high levels of genetic diversity within British populations of the introduced non-native grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
  98. Post-receptoral mechanisms of colour vision in new world primates
  99. Molecular evolution of trichromacy in primates
  100. Phenotype of a British North Carolina macular dystrophy family linked to chromosome 6q
  101. A retGC-1 Mutation in Autosomal Dominant Cone-Rod Dystrophy
  102. Immune responses limit adenovirally mediated gene expression in the adult mouse eye
  103. Mutations in the Retinal Guanylate Cyclase (RETGC-1) Gene in Dominant Cone-Rod Dystrophy
  104. Localization of a Gene (CORD7) for a Dominant Cone-Rod Dystrophy to Chromosome 6q
  105. Absence of p53 delays apoptotic photoreceptor cell death in the rds mouse
  106. The rod and green cone opsins of two avian species, the budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus, and the mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchus
  107. Gene therapy for inherited retinal degeneration
  108. Visual pigments and oil droplets from six classes of photoreceptor in the retinas of birds
  109. Characterisation of the Ultraviolet-Sensitive Opsin Gene in the Honey Bee, Apis Mellifera
  110. The maddening business of King George III and porphyria
  111. Human guanylate kinase (GUK1): cDNA sequence, expression and chromosomal localisation
  112. Spectral tuning and molecular evolution of rod visual pigments in the species flock of cottoid fish in Lake Baikal
  113. Gene transfer into the mouse retina mediated by an adeno-associated viral vector
  114. The rhodopsin-encoding gene of bony fish lacks introns
  115. The chemistry of John Dalton's color blindness
  116. Localization of the gene for progressive bifocal chorioretinal atrophy (PBCRA) to chromosome 6q
  117. Sequence divergence, polymorphism and evolution of the middle-wave and long-wave visual pigment genes of great apes and old world monkeys
  118. Visual pigments and the photic environment: The cottoid fish of Lake Baikal
  119. Genetic linkage of cone–rod retinal dystrophy to chromosome 19q and evidence for segregation distortion
  120. The molecular basis of a spectral shift in the rhodopsins of two species of squid from different photic environments
  121. Structure and evolution of the polymorphic photopigment gene of the marmoset
  122. Detecting gene conversion: primate visual pigment genes
  123. Sequence divergence and copy number of the middle- and long-wave photopigment genes in old world monkeys
  124. Metallothionein and the development of the mottled disorder in the mouse
  125. Pyrimidine biosynthesis in the dumpy mutants of Drosophila melanogaster
  126. Trace element binding in the copper deficient mottled mutants in the mouse
  127. Catecholamine biosynthesis and the activity of a number of copper-dependent enzymes in the copper deficient mottled mouse mutants
  128. Biogenic amines in Drosophila melanogaster selected for differences in larval feeding behavior
  129. Early Prenatal Diagnosis of Hurler's Syndrome with Termination of Pregnancy and Confirmatory Findings on the Fetus
  130. AN INHERITED DEFICIENCY IN NORADRENALINE BIOSYNTHESIS IN THE BRINDLED MOUSE