Visual Transduction and Non-Visual Light Perception

I. Evolution of the Visual System

1. An Organ of Exquisite Perfection
George Ayoub

II. Photoreceptor Structure, Function, and Development

2. Development of the Foveal Specialization
Keely M. Bumsted O'Brien

3. An Update on the Regulation of Rod Photoreceptor Development
Edward M. Levine, Sabine Fuhrmann

III. The Retinal Pigment Epithelium and the Visual Cycle

4. Photoreceptor—RPE Interactions
Silvia C. Finnemann, Yongen Chang

5. Molecular Biology of IRBP and Its Role in the Visual Cycle
Diane E. Borst, Jeffrey H. Boatright, John M. Nickerson

IV. Visual Signaling in the Outer Retina

6. Regulation of Photoresponses by Phosphorylation
Alecia K. Gross, Qiong Wang, Theodore G. Wensel

7. The cGMP Signaling Pathway in Retinal Photoreceptors and the Central Role of Photoreceptor Phosphodiesterase (PDE6)
Rick H. Cote

8. Rhodopsin Structure, function, and Involvement in Retinitis Pigmentosa
Scott Gleim, John Hwa

9. Multiple Signaling Pathways Govern Calcium Homeostasis in Photoreceptor Inner Segments
Tamas Szikra, David Krizaj

10. The Transduction Channels of Rod and Cone Photoreceptors
Dimitri Tränkner

11. Rhodopsins in Drosophila Color Vision
David Jukam, Preet Lidder, Claude Desplan

12. INAD Signaling Complex of Drosophila Photoreceptors
Armin Huber, Nina E. Meyer

V. Visual Processing in the Inner Retina

13. Visual Signal Processing in the Inner Retina
Botir T. Sagdullaev, Tomomi Ichinose, Erika D. Eggers, Peter D. Lukasiewicz

VI. Color Vision and Adaptive Processes

14. Human Cone Spectral Sensitivities and Color Vision Deficiencies
Andrew Stockman, Lindsay T. Sharpe

15. Luminous Efficiency Functions
Lindsay T. Sharpe, Andrew Stockman

16. Cone Pigments and Vision in the Mouse
Gerald H. Jacobs

17. Multifocal Oscillatory Potentials of the Human Retina
Anne Kurtenbach, Herbert Jägle

VII. Aging and Vision

18. The Aging of the Retina
Caren Bellmann, José A. Sahel

19. Aging of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium
Michael E. Boulton

20. Visual Transduction and Age-Related Changes in Lipofuscin
Malgorzata Ró?anowski, Bartosz Ró?anowski

8. Nonphotoreceptor Light Detection and Circadian Rhythms

21. A Nonspecific System Provides Nonphotic Information for the Biological Clock
Marian H. Lewandowski

22. The Circadian Clock: Physiology, Genes, and Disease
Michael C. Antle

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Ophthalmology, Cell Biology, Molecular Medicine