...Marisa S. McDonald; Jonathan H. Cohen; Megan L. Porter ABSTRACT Larval stomatopods have generally been described as having a typical larval crustacean compound eye, which lacks the visual pigment diversity and morphological specializations of the well-studied stomatopod adult eye. However, recent...

...Marisa S. McDonald; Sitara Palecanda; Jonathan H. Cohen; Megan L. Porter ABSTRACT Stomatopod crustaceans have among the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom, with up to 12 different color detection channels. The capabilities of these unique eyes include photoreception of ultraviolet (UV...

... ). Ecology and evolution of agonistic behavior in stomatopods . Naturwissenschaften 62 , 214 - 222 . 10.1007/BF00603166 Cartwright , B. A. and Collet , T. S. ( 1983 ). Landmark learning in bees: experiments and models . J. Comp. Physiol. A. 151 , 521 - 543 . 10.1007/BF00605469...

...Tsyr-Huei Chiou; Ching-Wen Wang ABSTRACT Stomatopods, or mantis shrimp, are the only animal group known to possess circular polarization vision along with linear polarization vision. By using the rhabdomere of a distally located photoreceptor as a wave retarder, the eyes of mantis shrimp are able...

... flexible search pattern to locate their homes. Navigation Search Pattern Animal Behavior Orientation Stomatopod Homing Path integration is an efficient navigational strategy that many animals use to return to a specific location. During path integration, an animal monitors its body...

... in water than they do in air. Biomechanics Energy Kinematics Power amplification Stomatopod Diverse biological systems, including locusts and mantis shrimp, use latch-mediated, spring-actuated systems to generate movements with incredibly high speeds and mechanical power ( Gronenberg...

... underlies these context-specific changes, which have implications for theories of contest and feeding behavior. Velocity Energy Scaling Animal weapons Animal contests Stomatopod Energy is a central currency in biology that fuels how animals accomplish essential tasks. Therefore...

..., we integrated behavior, biomechanics and physical modeling to create a foundational understanding of predation using an impact weapon. Shell fracture Durophagy Stomatopod Physical model Behavioral plasticity Mollusk Highlighted Article: Mantis shrimp strike shells repeatedly...

...Rachel M. Templin; Martin J. How; Nicholas W. Roberts; Tsyr-Huei Chiou; Justin Marshall ABSTRACT A combination of behavioural and electrophysiological experiments have previously shown that two species of stomatopod, Odontodactylus scyllarus and Gonodactylaceus falcatus , can differentiate between...

.... Several marine species, such as stomatopod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs, communicate using visual signals that contain polarized information, content that is often part of a more complex multi-dimensional visual signal. In this work, we investigate the evolution of polarized signals in species...

.... Transparent, pelagic animals must therefore deal with the trade-off between the ability to see and the ability of other animals to see them. Stomatopod larvae, like many transparent crustaceans, possess specialized optics in their compound eyes that minimize the volume of the opaque retina. Though the volumes...

... with light such as birefringence, differential reflection or scattering. We describe a novel biological polarizer in a marine crustacean based on linear dichroism of a carotenoid molecule. The red-colored, dichroic ketocarotenoid pigment astaxanthin is deposited in the antennal scale of a stomatopod...

... effectively resist these extreme impacts. stomatopod mantis shrimp impact coefficient of restitution © 2010. 2010 15 7 2010 * Author for correspondence at present address: Department of Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USA ( [email protected]...

...). In stomatopods, the cephalon and the 1st to 4th thoracic segments are fused to form the cephalo-thorax, which is followed by the 5th to 8th thoracic segments, the 1st to 6th abdominal segments and the telson( McLaughlin, 1980 ). The topographical relationship between the exoskeleton, the heart and CNS in S...

... by waves. We compared signal encounters by odor-plume-tracking stomatopods (mantis shrimp) in wave-affected and unidirectional flow in a flume. Stomatopods are small enough that we can study their natural behavior in a flume. They sample odors by flicking their antennules. A thin sheet of laser light...

...K. S. Mead; M. A. R. Koehl ABSTRACT Many crustaceans detect odors from distant sources using chemosensory sensilla (aesthetascs) on their antennules. The greater the flow of water through arrays of aesthetascs, the faster the access of odorant to receptors inside the aesthetascs. Stomatopods...

...Pamela A. Jutte; Thomas W. Cronin; Roy L. Caldwell ABSTRACT Optical microscopy, electron microscopy and microspectrophotometry were used to characterize pigments in the eyes of planktonic larvae of two species of the lysiosquilloid stomatopod Pullosquilla, P. litoralis and P. thomassini , which...