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Defines cited receptor combinations that package models may use by default. Receptors marked with a role in species_sensitivities are not model-eligible unless they occur in this table.

Usage

species_channels

Format

A data frame with 13 rows and 7 columns:

species

Scientific name matching species_sensitivities$species.

channel

Stable channel identifier within a species.

channel_role

Biological role from the controlled vocabulary.

receptor

Receptor member matching a species/receptor pair in species_sensitivities.

weight

Finite positive channel membership weight. Chromatic JND currently uses receptor-noise weighting rather than this field.

is_default

Whether this is the default channel for its species and role. A species can have at most one default channel per role.

source

Literature citation supporting the receptor set.

Details

The curated set contains default chromatic channels for Homo sapiens, Danio rerio, and Apis mellifera, plus behavioural achromatic channels for adult light-adapted Danio rerio, Apis mellifera, and Drosophila melanogaster. Species with incomplete or ambiguous receptor sets are deliberately absent and therefore fail rather than falling back to every known receptor.

References

Krauss A, Neumeyer C (2003) Wavelength dependence of the optomotor response in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Vision Research 43:1275-1284. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00090-7

Niggebrugge C, Hempel de Ibarra N (2003) Colour-dependent target detection by bees. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 189:915-918. doi:10.1007/s00359-003-0466-3

Yamaguchi S, Wolf R, Desplan C, Heisenberg M (2008) Motion vision is independent of color in Drosophila. PNAS 105:4910-4915. doi:10.1073/pnas.0711484105

Examples

data(species_channels)
subset(species_channels, species == "Homo sapiens")
#>        species       channel channel_role receptor weight is_default
#> 1 Homo sapiens cone_opponent    chromatic   S-cone      1       TRUE
#> 2 Homo sapiens cone_opponent    chromatic   M-cone      1       TRUE
#> 3 Homo sapiens cone_opponent    chromatic   L-cone      1       TRUE
#>                     source
#> 1 Bowmaker & Dartnall 1980
#> 2 Bowmaker & Dartnall 1980
#> 3 Bowmaker & Dartnall 1980