.... This Review focuses on how ultraviolet photoreceptors commonly contribute to high-level visual function and are used in both color and polarization vision. Ultraviolet Visual pigments Vision Opsin Dorsal rim Chromatic aberration In 1881, Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, published...

... for either self-screening by the retinas or longitudinal chromatic aberration of the lens. MSP was performed using the single-beam, computer-controlled microspectrophotometer described in McFarland and Loew ( McFarland and Loew, 1994 ). This microspectrophotometer used a Leitz (Oberkochen, Germany) 170...

..., A. M. ( 1997 ). Fishes of the Gulf of Aqaba . Aqaba: Marine Science Station. Kröger, R. H. H. and Campbell, M. C. W. ( 1996 ). Dispersion and longitudinal chromatic aberration of the crystalline lens of the African cichlid fish Haplochromis burtoni. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13 , 2341 -2347...

... have colour vision despite being described as cone monochromats. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: ronald.kroger@cob.lu.se ) 20 10 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 physiological optics chromatic aberration multifocal lens slit pupil evolution...