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Jan 23, How do humans see color? (Papers Due)
Do you know someone who is color blind?  Below is the beginning of our understanding of the molecular basis of color blindness.

Things to consider while you read these papers: is color blindness a disease?  

Do we all see color the same way?  What is color?

How do we go beyond these papers, or do they describe it all?
Papers we will go over on friday:
Nathans, Thomas & Hogness

Here is the initial description of the opsins responsible for color vision.
The companion paper that looks at heterogeneity in humans.
Blue cone monochromacy

 
Papers you might enjoy reading
David Botstein's review of the original Nathans, Thomas, and Hogness paper
Some background on Jeremy Nathans
More background