Term Information

Accession
GO:0120303
Name
visually-mediated background adaptation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
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Alternate IDs
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Definition
Any process in which an organism changes its pigmentation (lightening in response to a brighter environment or darkening in response to a dimmer environment) in response to a change in light intensity detected by melanopsin-expressing eye cells. Source: GOC:krc, GOC:cvs, PMID:29239123, PMID:32898924
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0120303 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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visually-mediated background adaptation [is_a relation] is_a  background adaptation (GO:0120302)

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