Abstract
IN a broad sense the absorbance spectra of the rhodopsins of fishes seem to vary to suit the spectral energy distributions of the lights reaching them through the water1–6. Thus bathypelagic fishes, living in an environment where the ambient daylight (and the light from bioluminescent organisms) is maximal between 460 and 490 nm7, have rhodopsins of λmax between 472 and 487 nm (refs. 1–5). Similarly, coastal fishes, which live in light environments with peak radiation between 490 and 550 nm7, have rhodopsins that range correspondingly in λmax between 495 and 512 nm (refs. 3–5, 8).
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