Title: The Biological bulletin
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Authors: Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass. ); Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass. ). Annual report 1907/08-1952; Lillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947; Moore, Carl Richard, 1892-; Redfield, Alfred Clarence, 1890-1983
Subjects: Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology
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MANTIS SHRIMP SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY 315 100 50
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400 500 600 Wavelength (nm) 700 Figure 7. Solid line: average results of spectral scan experiments. Dotted line: computed absorptance spectrum for a rhodopsin having a 537-nm maximum and a peak absorbance of 0.5. The dotted curve is normalized to its maximum, for comparison to the sensitivity function. nm) is about 25% broader than the 102-nm half band- width of the absorption spectrum of a rhodopsin in this spectral location (The absorption spectrum was calcu- lated using an 8th-order polynomial developed by G. D. Bernard and kindly provided by him.) The discrepancy is easily resolved by considering self-screening by the rhodopsin, an effect that broadens the absorption func- tion. In Figure 7 the average curve generated by spectral scanning is plotted together with a computed absorption curve for a rhodopsin peaking at 537 nm and with a max- imum density of 0.5. The match between the curves is excellent. 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