... © 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2015 Colour vision Chromatic resolution UV sensitivity Vitamin A1/A2-based pigments Cone abundance Zootoca vivipara Podarcis muralis Vision is a key sense involved in tasks such as mating, foraging and predator avoidance...

..., the only L. polyphemus eyes in which UV sensitivity was previously detected, and in the dendrite of eccentric cells in lateral compound eyes. Therefore, eccentric cells, previously thought to be non-photosensitive second-order neurons, may actually be UV-sensitive photoreceptors. LpUVOps1 is also expressed...

... Photoreceptor UV sensitivity Visual pigment Rhodopsin coexpression Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus 1762) and Anopheles gambiae Giles 1902 are the major vectors of mosquito-borne diseases. Visual input underlying adult mosquito behaviors, including mating, host seeking, resting and ovipositioning...

... photoreceptor acceptance angle UV sensitivity sky contrast The owlfly Libelloides macaronius (Scopoli 1763) (formerly Ascalaphus macaronius ) (Insecta: Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae) is a predatory insect hunting above Ponto-Mediterranean meadows for small insect prey ( Aspöck et al., 2001...