Dynamic polarization vision in mantis shrimps

Autor: Ilse M. Daly, Martin J. How, Julian C. Partridge, Shelby E. Temple, N. Justin Marshall, Thomas W. Cronin, Nicholas W. Roberts
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12140
Popis: Mantis shrimps are known to display large pitch, yaw and torsional eye rotations. Here, the authors show that these eye movements allow mantis shrimp to orientate particular photoreceptors in order to better discriminate the polarization of light.
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