Dynamic polarization vision in mantis shrimps

oleh: Ilse M. Daly, Martin J. How, Julian C. Partridge, Shelby E. Temple, N. Justin Marshall, Thomas W. Cronin, Nicholas W. Roberts

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-07-01

Deskripsi

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.