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Science 2 February 1996:
Vol. 271. no. 5249, p. 616
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5249.616
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Perspectives

Richard H. Masland

In the primate retina, three types of cone photoreceptors--red, blue, and green--code the color in the visual field. R. H. Masland describes what is known about how this information is processed in retinal cells and how new results in this issue of Science change our way of thinking about color vision.

The author is with the Howard Hughes Medical Institue, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.


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Mutually exclusive expression of human red and green visual pigment-reporter transgenes occurs at high frequency in murine cone photoreceptors.
Y. Wang, P. M. Smallwood, M. Cowan, D. Blesh, A. Lawler, and J. Nathans (1999)
PNAS 96, 5251-5256
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