1 Evolution and Diversity of Visual Pigments in Connection
with Their Functional Differences ............................ 1
Keita Sato and Yoshinori Shichida
2 Phototransduction in Rods and Cones ......................... 23
Satoru Kawamura and Shuji Tachibanaki
3 Regeneration of ll-cis-Retinal in Visual Systems with
Monostable and Bistable Visual Pigments ..................... 47
John C. Saari
4 Molecular Mechanism of Adaptation in Vertebrate Rods ........ 73
Ala Morshedian and Gordon L. Fain
5 Energy Metabolism in the Vertebrate Retina .................. 91
James B. Hurley, Andrei O. Chertov, Ken Lindsay, Michelle
Giamarco, Whitney Cleghorn, Jianhai Du, and Susan
Brockerhoff
6 Role and Mechanism of Ciliary Transport .................... 139
Dusanka Deretic
7 Molecular Mechanisms of Photoreceptor Synaptic
Transmission ............................................... 167
Matthew J. Van Hook and Wallace B. Thoreson
8 Structure and Development of the Photoreceptor
Ribbon Synapse ............................................. 199
Yoshihiro Omori and Takahisa Furukawa
9 Cell Fate Determination of Photoreceptor Cells ............. 217
Constance Cepko
10 Cell Polarity in Differentiation and Patterning
of Photoreceptors .......................................... 245
Jarema J. Malicki
11 Photoreceptor Degeneration: Molecular Mechanisms
of Photoreceptor Degeneration .............................. 275
Jerome E. Roger and Anand Swaroop
12 Photoreceptor Transplantation and Regeneration ............. 309
Valeria Mango and Simona Casarosa
13 Molecular Mechanisms of the Function of Pineal Organs ...... 327
Daisuke Kojima and Yoshitaka Fukada
Index ......................................................... 343
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