Journal article
Whole-body photoreceptor networks are independent of ‘lenses’ in brittle stars
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Photoreception and vision are fundamental aspects of animal sensory biology and ecology, but important gaps remain in our understanding of these processes in many species. The colour-changing brittle star Ophiocoma wendtii is iconic in vision research, speculatively possessing a unique whole-body visual system that incorporates information from nerve bundles underlying thousands of crystalline ‘microlenses’. The hypothesis that these form a sophisticated compound eye-like system regulated by ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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American Microscopical Society
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Government of Northern Ireland
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DAAD-Leibniz Fellowship scheme
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 285
- Issue:
- 1871
- Pages:
- 1-8
- Publication date:
- 2018-01-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-01-03
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2954
- ISSN:
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0962-8452
- Source identifiers:
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819290
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- pubs:819290
- Deposit date:
- 2018-01-12
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- Copyright holder:
- © 2018 Sumner-Rooney, et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from Royal Society at: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2590
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