... ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, suggesting that the duplicated UV opsin genes in Heliconius function to improve UV color vision. Visual system Wavelength discrimination Ultraviolet Insect vision Behavior U.S. Department of Education http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000138 PA200A120144...

... solutions that animals have evolved in response to specific visual challenges. Visual specializations Insect vision Optics Specialized visual systems For humans, vision is a particularly important sense. Notably, among vertebrates, there is a remarkable unity in the design of eyes as image...

... and in ways different from other polarization-sensitive taxa. Butterfly Insect vision Polarization vision Degree of linear polarization Behavior Fig. 1. Visual system of   female Pieris rapae . (A) Diagram of ommatidium showing the arrangement of the nine photoreceptors (R1–9). (B...

... targets in visual clutter inspired by insect physiology . PLoS ONE   3 , e2784 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0002784 Wiederman , S. D. , Fabian , J. M. , Dunbier , J. R. and O'Carroll , D. C. ( 2017 ). A predictive focus of gain modulation encodes target trajectories in insect vision...

..., whereas the LVFs and medullar interneurons they connect to are mainly responsible for color vision ( Heisenberg and Buchner, 1977 ; Yamaguchi et al., 2008 ). Lamina monopolar cells Insect vision Japanese yellow swallowtail Spectral sensitivity Information processing Summary: LMCs...

... during free walking in blowflies, and when visual cues are lacking, more weight is given to gravity. Lucilia cuprina Multisensory integration Insect vision Head–body coordination During locomotion, many animals aim to keep their visual systems aligned with an external frame...

...Francismeire J. Telles; Almut Kelber; Miguel A. Rodríguez-Gironés ABSTRACT Despite the strong relationship between insect vision and the spectral properties of flowers, the visual system has been studied in detail in only a few insect pollinator species. For instance, wavelength discrimination...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Active vision Bombus terrestris Insect vision Rapid feature extraction Visual processing To ascertain that bees trained on static stimuli could generalise to briefly presented stimuli in a test, we pre-trained 10 bees as above and then trained them...

... is abolished. * Author for correspondence ( reiserm@janelia.hhmi.org ) 4 5 2012 26 10 2012 © 2013. 2013 elementary motion detector insect vision navigation visual expansion One essential feature of animal locomotion is the need to avoid obstacles. Organisms...

... contrast patterns. The broad application of the AESIS and the concept of aggressive mimicry are discussed here. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: ecyang@ntu.edu.tw ) 27 4 2009 2009 insect vision color contrast Apis mellifera Nephila pilipes It is well known...

... 2009 2009 insect vision compound eyes eye shine spectral heterogeneity When viewed with an epi-illumination microscope, butterfly eyes commonly exhibit colourful reflections, the so-called eye shine, whose colour varies between ommatidia ( Bernard and Miller,1970 ; Stavenga et al...

... 12 7 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 target detection velocity tuning contrast dependence spatial interactions insect vision elementary motion detection (EMD) Despite the limited acuity provided by the compound eye, many insects detect and pursue small...

..., University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0006, USA (e-mail: john.layne@uc.edu ) † Present address: Mount Sinai Medical School, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA 6 9 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 depth perception insect vision flat world...

..., Bioengineering, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA (e-mail: astraw@caltech.edu ) 29 8 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 insect vision motion detection sexual dimorphism From the first published drawing of a magnified fly's head( Hooke, 1665 ), it has been clear that facet...

... 2005 pursuit control system visuomotor control behaviour computational neuroethology computer simulation insect vision blowfly When cruising around in an exploratory manner, flies typically change their flight direction and concomitantly the direction of their gaze through a series...

... © The Company of Biologists Limited 1995 Manduca sexta Sphingidae photoreceptors insect vision ultraviolet vision pollination The ‘color vision’ of insects has been widely studied in Hymenoptera ( Peitsch et al . 1992 ; Menzel and Shmida, 1993 ; Chittka et al . 1994...

... 1991 flow-field motion-sensitive descending neurone insect vision Apis mellifera The present investigation studied the responses of descending neurones in Apis mellifera using two large visual patterns (each subtending an angle of 120°), mounted on each side of the head...

... – 123 . Wehner , R. ( 1981 ). Spatial vision in arthropods . In Handbook of Sensory Physiology , vol. VII/6C (ed. H. Autrum ), pp. 287 – 616 . Berlin, Heidelberg, New York : Springer-Verlag . insect vision motion-sensitive interneurones directional tuning contrast...

... ). The above findings, together with the known visual recognition tasks performed by the mantid, finally allow the formulation of a simple neuronal model of binocular vision. 22 08 1985 © 1986 by Company of Biologists 1986 insect vision binocular vision binocular coordination stereopsis...