...Pauline N. C. Chanel; Nigel C. Bennett; Maria K. Oosthuizen ABSTRACT Highveld mole-rats ( Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae ) are social rodents that inhabit networks of subterranean tunnels. In their natural environment, they are rarely exposed to light, and consequently their visual systems have...

...HyoJong Jang; David P. Goodman; Jessica Ausborn; Catherine R. von Reyn ABSTRACT Spatially invariant feature detection is a property of many visual systems that rely on visual information provided by two eyes. However, how information across both eyes is integrated for invariant feature detection...

...Svetlana Volotsky; Ohad Ben-Shahar; Opher Donchin; Ronen Segev ABSTRACT Recognition of individual objects and their categorization is a complex computational task. Nevertheless, visual systems can perform this task in a rapid and accurate manner. Humans and other animals can efficiently recognize...

... ) that the duplicated UV opsin genes function together in UV color vision. Taken together, the sexually dimorphic visual system of H. erato appears to have been shaped by both sexual selection and sex-specific natural selection. Butterflies were trained and fed for the first time within 15 h of eclosion. Before...

...Christian Drerup; Martin J. How ABSTRACT Many animals go to great lengths to stabilize their eyes relative to the visual scene and do so to enhance the localization of moving objects and to functionally partition the visual system relative to the outside world. An important cue that is used...

... is mediated by the activation of histamine-gated chloride channels (HCLs). These histaminergic synapses have been assumed to be conserved among insect visual systems. However, our understanding of the channels in question has thus far been based on studies in flies. In the butterfly Papilio xuthus , we have...

...Ilse M. Daly; Martin J. How; Julian C. Partridge; Nicholas W. Roberts ABSTRACT Stomatopods have an extraordinary visual system, incorporating independent movement of their eyes in all three degrees of rotational freedom. In this work, we demonstrate that in the peacock mantis shrimp, Odontodactylus...

...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...

... 2009 © 2010. LPTC arousal behavioural state fly motor activity visual system When an animal moves through the world the images on its retinae are in continuous motion. Processing visual motion endows the animal with information about its self-movement and the three-dimensional...

... in the same stemma. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 22 8 2009 © 2009. 2009 stemmata eye in situ hybridization visual pigments visual system insects Adult insects are generally characterized by compound eyes, and the vast majority of the research...

... that simultaneous color contrast of Papilio is similar to the effect of complementary colors in human color vision. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 15 9 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 insect visual system complementary color...

... producing counter-torque during the second half of the saccadic turning manoeuvre. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 16 10 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 flight control flight saccade visual system body friction steering capacity...

... © The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 vision pattern recognition template-matching fish visual system electric fish mormyrid dim light vision Gnathonemus petersii. It is difficult to identify a visual object or an environmental landmark from any possible viewpoint...

...Monika Bałys; Elżbieta Pyza SUMMARY The visual system of a fly expresses several circadian rhythms that have been detected in the photoreceptors of the compound eye and in the first neuropile, the lamina, of the underlying optic lobe. In the lamina, axons of two classes of interneuron, L1 and L2...

... the number of visits to each patch. After the fifth visit, the position of the colours was changed to avoid the butterfly learning the patch positions. We calculated the effects of the illumination on the reflection spectra of the visual system of Papilio xuthus . The retina of Papilio xuthus...

... visual system central nervous system insect electrophysiology ion channel K + current Ca 2+ current locust Schistocerca gregaria In insects, the perception and processing of visual information has been widely studied in numerous preparations. The sensory input provided...

... 1997 ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1997 locust Locusta migratoria DCMD identified neurone movement detection direction selective visual system motion in depth The image of a rapidly approaching object is a powerful stimulus eliciting avoidance reactions in many...

... transferase crayfish visual system Procambarus clarkii. The means by which animals isomerize retinol or retinal to the 11- cis configuration for incorporation of the latter into their visual pigments is one of the most variable features of the visual pigment cycle. The first of these enzymes...

...Thomas Schneider ABSTRACT Using in vitro autoradiography, the distribution of 2-[ 125 I]iodomelatonin (IMEL) binding sites in the brain of the pied flycatcher and the zebra finch was examined. The results show IMEL binding in retinofugal, tectofugal and thalamofugal brain areas of the visual system...

... to superficial layers of the SC made by individual regenerated RGC axons resemble those of retinofugal axons in the SC of rodents during: (a) the development of the visual system ( Sachs et al . 1986 ); (b) the reinnervation that follows optic tract lesions in the immediate postnatal period { So et al . 1981...