ReviewEye (London, England)2016
Why rods and cones?
Review in Eye (London, England), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.
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59 citing papers in PubMed, 136 citations in OpenAlex.
- Associations of Cone Density and Choroidal Thickness with Age: A Cross-Sectional Study.Ophthalmology science · 2026Article
- Cone Opsins and Inherited Retinal Disease.Cells · 2026Review
- Perceived Complexity as Normalized, Integrated, Localized Shannon Entropy.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Frequency responses of human magnetophosphene perception thresholds during dark adaptation point to rod modulation.Experimental physiology · 2026Article
- Deep-sea fish reveal an alternative developmental trajectory for vertebrate vision.Science advances · 2026Article
- Drusen-specific dark adaptation profiles in intermediate age-related macular degeneration.International journal of retina and vitreous · 2026Article
- AI-enabled new sensing technology: colorimetric analysis of exosomes for precise diagnosis of breast cancer.Chemical science · 2026Article
- The visual system of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark.Nature communications · 2026Article
- IMI: The Role of Light in Refractive Development and Myopia: Evidence from Animal and Human Studies.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Review
- Temporal Sensitivity Under Photopic and Scotopic Conditions Across the Cortical Visual Hierarchy.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Retinoid dynamics in vision: from visual cycle biology to retina disease treatments.Pharmacology & therapeutics · 2025Review
- Divergent mechanisms of neural adaptation and instability in the mammalian retina.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Optical coherence tomography retinal imaging: narrative review of technological advancements and clinical applications.Annals of translational medicine · 2025Review
- Pharmaceutical inhibition of the Chk2 kinase mitigates cone photoreceptor degeneration in an iPSC model of Bardet-Biedl syndrome.iScience · 2025Article
- Age-Related Changes in Mesopic Reading Vision Across Adulthood.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- The analgesic effect of green light on neuropathic pain: a mini-review of the literature and a proposal for future work.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Molecular characterization of the sea lamprey retina illuminates the evolutionary origin of retinal cell types.Nature communications · 2024Article
- A Comprehensive Overview of the Neural Mechanisms of Light Therapy.Neuroscience bulletin · 2024Review
- On the Cranial Nerves.NeuroSci · 2024Review
- Heterogeneity in the progression of retinal pathologies in mice harboring patient mimicking Impg2 mutations.Human molecular genetics · 2024Article
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Abstract
Under twenty-first-century metropolitan conditions, almost all of our vision is mediated by cones and the photopic system, yet cones make up barely 5% of our retinal photoreceptors. This paper looks at reasons why we additionally possess rods and a scotopic system, and asks why rods comprise 95% of our retinal photoreceptors. It considers the ability of rods to reliably signal the arrival of individual photons of light, as well as the ability of the retina to process these single-photon signals, and it discusses the advantages that accrue. Drawbacks in the arrangement, including the very slow dark adaptation of scotopic vision, are also considered. Finally, the timing of the evolution of cone and rod photoreceptors, the retina, and the camera-style eye is summarised.
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