Double cone (biology)
Double cones (DCs), known as twin cones when the two members are the same, are two
Some double cones have members with same
Rhinecanthus aculeatus has provided evidence that individual members of double cones can act as independent channels of colour information.[2]
In a book about
vision in fishes,[3] James Bowmaker writes that double cones tend to be sensitive to longer wavelengths of light than single cones. He also states that the single cones are usually smaller than the individual members of the double cones.[3][4]
Further reading
- Walls, G. L. (1942). The vertebrate eye and its adaptive radiation: Bloomfield Hills, Mich. : Cranbrook Institute of Science. esp. pp 58-63.
References
External links
- University of Queensland research page (last updated 2007 but has some interesting information)