Rhodopsin, a pigment of the retina that is responsible for perception of light is also involved in temperature sensation. The work emerged from a collaboration between the laboratory of Andrew Chess, ...

Cell biologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have discovered animals can adapt their ability to see even with extreme changes in temperature. The researchers looked deeply into the eyes of ...

The function of the visual photopigment rhodopsin and its action in the retina to facilitate vision is well understood. However, there remain questions about other biological functions of this family ...

In a new study at University of California, Irvine, researchers have revealed the impact of native lipids on rhodopsin signaling and regeneration, which may usher in a new paradigm for discovery of ...

The movement of genetic material from prokaryotes seemed like a plausible route for rhodopsins to make their way into eukaryotes, but researchers still wrestled with some of the details of this ...

Sammons J and Gross AK. 2012 In vitro biochemical assays to monitor rhodopsin function. Methods in Molecular Biology, in publication. Hollingsworth TJ and Gross AK. Defective trafficking of rhodopsin ...

Animals can adapt their ability to see even with extreme changes in temperature, researchers have discovered. The researchers looked deeply into the eyes of catfish living in cold-water streams at ...