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An understanding of the photopigments is indispensable as, the primary process in photoreception starts with the absorption of light quanta by the photopigment molecules, which in turn triggers the long train of the visual process: molecular transformation, production of transmitter, ionic movements, and often substantial structural changes within the visual cells. Subsequently synaptic transmission of the electric signal to higher order neurons occurs and eventually a behavioural response is elicited, all this being the result of the initial absorption of light quanta.
And how exceeding curious and fubrile must the component parts of the medium that conveys light be, when we find the instrument made for its reception or refraction to be so exceedingly small? we may, I think, from this speculation be sufficiently discouraged from hoping to discover by any optick or other instrument the determinate bulk of the parts of the medium that conveys the pulse of light, Robert Hooke; Micrographia p. 180; 1667.
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Stavenga, D.G., Schwemer, J. (1984). Visual Pigments of Invertebrates. In: Ali, M.A. (eds) Photoreception and Vision in Invertebrates. NATO ASI Series, vol 74. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2743-1_2
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