Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The detection, absorption, and use of light, as for vision in animals or phototropism and photosynthesis in plants.
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- noun biology the
absorption oflight energy byplants andanimals , and itsutilization for biologically important purposes
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They provide sensation (including photoreception), communications, signal transduction, trasport, motility and reproductive functions.
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The strong evidence lies in the diversity of extant forms and the deep molecular homologies in both the biochemistry of photoreception and the developmental regulators of form.
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THE HUMAN BBAIN which discrete organs " eyes " are devoted to photoreception.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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For readers of Perception, photoreception might be a more interesting alternative than movement in response to warmth, but either mechanism would be a novel phenomenon for the body of fly literature Xu et al, 2006.
Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker 2011
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Previous anatomical studies of PACAP/melanopsin-containing retinal innervation suggested roles of PACAP/melanopsin in a broad variety of nonvisual photoreception
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010
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To clarify the functional roles of intrinsic PACAP in nonvisual photoreception, we examined entrainment, masking and the pupillary light reflex (PLR) in,
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010
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Lu J, Fischer D, Saper CB (2003) A broad role for melanopsin in nonvisual photoreception.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010
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Lu J, Fischer D, Saper CB (2003) A broad role for melanopsin in nonvisual photoreception.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010
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To clarify the functional roles of intrinsic PACAP in nonvisual photoreception, we examined entrainment, masking and the pupillary light reflex (PLR) in,
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010
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Previous anatomical studies of PACAP/melanopsin-containing retinal innervation suggested roles of PACAP/melanopsin in a broad variety of nonvisual photoreception
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010
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