develops_from
develops from
retinal rod cell
BTO:0001024
CALOHA:TS-0870
FMA:67747
One of the two photoreceptor cell types of the vertebrate retina. In rods the photopigment is in stacks of membranous disks separate from the outer cell membrane. Rods are more sensitive to light than cones, but rod mediated vision has less spatial and temporal resolution than cone vision.
cell
retinal progenitor cell
camera-type eye photoreceptor cell