(1) UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, 11-43 Bath Street, EC1V 9EL London, UK;(2) Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford, Level 5-6, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, OX3 9DU Oxford, UK
Abstract:
Background
Many fish alter their expressed visual pigments during development. The number of retinal opsins expressed and their type is normally related to the environment in which they live. Eels are known to change the expression of their rod opsins as they mature, but might they also change the expression of their cone opsins?