The Visual Pigments of Geckos and other Vertebrates: An Essay in Comparative Biology

The Nature of the Chemical Bond

1939 • 13,296 citations

Dithiothreitol, a New Protective Reagent for SH Groups^*

1964 • 1,933 citations

The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation

1943 • 1,655 citations

Biology of the Reptilia

1969 • 1,598 citations

Structure and stability of biological macromolecules

1969 • 1,313 citations

A Light and Electron Microscopic Study

1976 • 1,232 citations

The vertebrate eye and its adaptive radiation [by] Gordon Lynn Walls.

1942 • 864 citations

Tautomeric Forms of Metarhodopsin

1963 • 602 citations

THE INTERPRETATION OF SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY CURVES

1953 • 597 citations

Visual pigments of frog and tadpole (Rana pipiens)

1968 • 415 citations

Color‐specific interconnections of cones and horizontal cells in the retina of the goldfish

1975 • 378 citations

Site of Attachment of Retinal in Rhodopsin

1967 • 352 citations

IODOPSIN

1955 • 325 citations

Biochemistry and Physiology of Visual Pigments

1973 • 320 citations

Visual pigments of single goldfish cones

1965 • 301 citations

Light-induced resistance changes in single photoreceptors ofnecturus andgekko

1969 • 300 citations

The ultrastructure of sensory organs

1974 • 267 citations

Microspectrophotometry of Photoreceptors

1972 • 254 citations

Preparation and Properties of Phospholipid Bilayers Containing Rhodopsin

1972 • 252 citations

THE MECHANISM OF BLEACHING RHODOPSIN

1958 • 241 citations

Colour receptors, and their synaptic connexions, in the retina of a cyprinid fish

1975 • 224 citations

THE ROLE OF SULFHYDRYL GROUPS IN THE BLEACHING AND SYNTHESIS OF RHODOPSIN

1952 • 211 citations

The Contribution of Hydrophobic Bonds to the Thermal Stability of Protein Conformations

1962 • 196 citations

Proximity Relationships in Rhodopsin

1972 • 188 citations

Anion-induced wavelength regulation of absorption maxima of Schiff bases of retinal

1972 • 187 citations

The Visual Cells and Visual Pigments of the Vertebrate Eye

1972 • 176 citations

Rhodopsin kinetics in the human eye

1971 • 166 citations

The effect of temperature on catalytic and regulatory functions of pyruvate kinases of the rainbow trout and the Antarctic fish Trematomus bernacchii

1968 • 164 citations

Proteins from thermophilic microorganisms

1973 • 158 citations

Human Rhodopsin

1958 • 158 citations

On the classification and evolution of geckos

1954 • 156 citations

The difference spectrum and the photosensitivity of rhodopsin in the living human eye

1956 • 155 citations

Thermostable Protease from Thermophilic Bacteria

1966 • 151 citations

An electron microscopic classification of the retinal receptors of the leopard frog (Rana pipiens)

1964 • 145 citations

Reaction of the Rhodopsin Chromophore with Sodium Borohydride

1965 • 143 citations

Rods and Cones

1972 • 140 citations

Visual Pigments of Goldfish Cones

1974 • 136 citations

THE THERMAL STABILITY OF RHODOPSIN AND OPSIN

1958 • 135 citations

The Reptilian Retina

1934 • 120 citations

Human Visual Purple

1953 • 114 citations

THE VISIBILITY OF MONOCHROMATIC RADIATION AND THE ABSORPTION SPECTRUM OF VISUAL PURPLE

1922 • 112 citations

Protein configuration changes in the photolysis of rhodopsin II. The sequence of intermediates in thermal decay of cattle metarhodopsin in vitro

1966 • 110 citations

Kinetics of slow thermal reactions during the bleaching of rhodopsin in the perfused frog retina

1972 • 94 citations

Dark-adaptation processes in the rhodopsin rods of the frog's retina

1967 • 93 citations

Thermostable Protease from Thermophilic Bacteria

1967 • 93 citations

The visual pigment of the green rods

1967 • 90 citations

Visual adaptation of the rhodopsin rods in the frog's retina

1968 • 79 citations

Tunable laser resonance Raman spectroscopy of the visual process. I: The spectrum of rhodopsin

1973 • 76 citations

The relation of transient orange to visual purple and indicator yellow

1938 • 69 citations

Structure of visual pigments. II. Binding of retinal and conformational changes on light exposure in bovine visual pigment500

1968 • 69 citations

The synthesis of photosensitive pigments in the rods of the frog's retina

1966 • 68 citations

Comparative study of a membrane protein. Characterization of bovine, rat, and frog visual pigments500

1969 • 65 citations

THE RESPONSES OF THE PUPIL OF GEKKO GEKKO TO EXTERNAL LIGHT STIMULUS

1956 • 63 citations

The reduction of a rhodopsin derivative

1965 • 61 citations

The thermal decomposition of visual purple

1938 • 61 citations

The Role of Sulfur in Proteins

1977 • 59 citations

Water structure and the chaotropic properties of haloacetates

1971 • 59 citations

The nature of the gecko visual cell

1964 • 59 citations

Intramolecular Bonds in Proteins I. The Role of Sulfur in Proteins

1963 • 58 citations

CIRCULAR DICHROISM OF VISUAL PIGMENTS IN THE VISIBLE AND ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRAL REGIONS

1966 • 58 citations

Rhodopsin Regeneration in Man

1969 • 55 citations

THE NATURE OF THE GECKO VISUAL PIGMENT

1956 • 53 citations

The effect of temperature on rhodopsinporphyropsin ratios in a fish

1973 • 52 citations

Non-integrative synapses.

1948 • 51 citations

The gecko retina

1964 • 46 citations

Delayed off-responses recorded from the isolated frog retina

1968 • 46 citations

The Photosensitive Retinal Pigment System of Gekko gekko

1963 • 45 citations

Studies on the retina of the gecko Coleonyx variegatus

1966 • 43 citations

A heat labile fructosediphosphate aldolase from cold-adapted Antarctic fishes

1970 • 41 citations

The Structure, Spectra, and Reactivity of Visual Pigments

1972 • 38 citations

Photoproducts of rhodopsin bleaching in the isolated, perfused frog retina

1969 • 38 citations

The sulfhydryl groups of rhodopsin

1966 • 37 citations

The bleaching and regeneration of rhodopsin in the cat

1974 • 37 citations

Colour Vision. Physiology and Experimental Psychology.

1966 • 36 citations

Some suggestions concerning vertebrate visual cells

1968 • 32 citations

Ganglion Cells in the Frog Retina: Inhibitory Receptive Field and Long-latency Response

1967 • 32 citations

The early phase of dark adaptation

1972 • 32 citations

On an early stage of rhodopsin regeneration in man

1967 • 31 citations

Studies on the retina of the gecko Coleonyx variegatus

1966 • 30 citations

The active site of the visual protein, rhodopsin

1967 • 29 citations

Long-lived photoproducts of rhodopsin in the retina of the frog

1974 • 29 citations

Biochemical Properties of Retinochrome

1973 • 28 citations

THE FLICKER RESPONSE CONTOUR FOR THE GECKO (ROD RETINA)

1939 • 27 citations

ABSORPTION SPECTRA OF TCA‐DENATURED RHODOPSIN AND OF A SCHIFF BASE COMPOUND OF RETINAL

1972 • 27 citations

Delayed responses of ganglion cells in the frog retina: The influence of stimulus parameters upon the length of the delay time

1969 • 25 citations

A quantum mechanical investigation of the bathochromic shift in visual pigments

2009 • 24 citations

The photoproducts of retinal-based visual pigments In situ: A contrast between Rana pipiens and Gekko gekko

1973 • 23 citations

Microspectrophotometry of Visual Receptors

1973 • 23 citations

Delayed electrical responses from the isolated frog retina

1967 • 22 citations

Adaptation Properties of Intracellularly Recorded Gekko Photoreceptor Potentials

1973 • 20 citations

The extremely long latency response from on-off retinal ganglion cells: Relationship to dark adaptation

1968 • 20 citations

THE FORMATION OF LONG WAVELENGTH ABSORBING SPECIES FROM SHORT WAVELENGTH ABSORBING LINEAR CONJUGATED POLYENES*

1972 • 17 citations

The dimensions of rod outer segments related to light absorption in the gecko retina

1969 • 16 citations

The reduction of rhodopsin with sodium borohydride under non-bleaching conditions

1971 • 16 citations

Visual Pigments and the Keilin–Hartree Effect

1966 • 16 citations

The spectral sensitivity of the lateral eye of the green iguana

1968 • 15 citations

ELECTRORETINOGRAMS AND SPECTRAL SENSITIVITIES OF SOME DIURNAL LIZARDS

1960 • 14 citations

Long-lived photoproducts of porphyropsin in the retina of the crucian carp (Carassius carassius)

1974 • 14 citations

The spectral sensitivity of the Gecko eye in relation to the state of adaptation

1966 • 13 citations

The gecko visual pigments—II. Color and the sulfhydryl group

1975 • 12 citations

DArk bleaching of rhodopsin by organic mercurial

1973 • 12 citations

Thee-wave and inhibition in the developing retina of the frog

1970 • 12 citations

Rod and cone contributions to the delayed response of the on-off ganglion cell in the frog

1975 • 11 citations

A charge transfer process in the visual pigments

1967 • 10 citations

Reversible spectral change of squid retinochrome by salts

1975 • 10 citations

Rod Dark-Adaptation and Visual Pigment Photoproducts

1973 • 9 citations

Bleaching of rhodopsin in the dark

1971 • 9 citations

Temperature difference spectra

1960 • 9 citations

Receptor Adaptation and Receptor Interactions: Some Results of Intracellular Recordings (Preliminary Note)

1973 • 8 citations

A thermosensitive property of bullfrog rhodopsin

1976 • 4 citations

The transmuted visual pigments of geckos

1974 • 4 citations

Charge—transfer interaction involving sulfhydryl groups of bovine serum albumin

1975 • 4 citations