Melanopsin: An opsin in melanophores, brain, and eye.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on January 06, 1998

Authors

I Provencio1, G Jiang, W J De Grip, W P Hayes, M D Rollag

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.

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