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Single and multiple visual pigments in deep-sea fishes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. C. Partridge ,
S. N. Archer  and
J. Vanoostrum
J. C. Partridge
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG
S. N. Archer
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG
J. Vanoostrum
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry, University of Nijmegen, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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The visual pigments in the retinal rods of 17 species of deep-sea fish were examined by microspectrophotometry or visual pigment extract spectrophotometry. In 15 species single visual pigments were found with peak sensitivities between 470 and 490 nm, typical of deep-sea fishes. However, in one species, Stylephorons cordatus, two visual pigments were found with λ values at 470 and 481 nm. In another species, Scopelarchus analis, three visual pigments were found with mean λ values of 444, 479 and 505 nm. The short-wave pigment of this species was found both in main and accessory retinae. It was present both in single rods and in outer segments which had the most long-wave sensitive pigment in their distal parts. It is argued that these two-pigment rods are in the process of changing their visual pigment from a ‘juvenile’ VP505 pigment to an ‘adult’ VP444 pigment. The VP479 was found only as a single pigment in rods in the accessory retina.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , February 1992 , pp. 113 - 130
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1992

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