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Timothy H. Goldsmith (auth.), Dr. Doekele Gerben Stavenga,'s Facets of Vision PDF

By Timothy H. Goldsmith (auth.), Dr. Doekele Gerben Stavenga, Dr. Roger Clayton Hardie (eds.)

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ISBN-13: 9783642740824

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The papers released during this quantity are the end result of a symposium held in Regensburg in April 1987. The assembly used to be held to com­ memorate most important occasions within the improvement of com­ pound eye examine. In chronological order those are to start with, Sigmund Exner's seminal monograph at the body structure of compound eyes of crustaceans and bugs, which used to be first released in Vienna in 1891, and is now almost immediately to seem for the 1st time within the English translation [Exner, S. (1989) The body structure of the Compound Eyes of bugs and Crustaceans. Springer Berlin Heidelberg long island Tokyo]. Secondly, the assembly was once additionally held in honour of Professor Hansjochem Autrum's eightieth birthday. Professor Autrum, who's justly stated as one of many pioneers of recent compound eye study, attended the assembly because the visitor of honour. in line with those historic events, it's been our purpose during this quantity to give a finished selection of brief experiences overlaying the key elements of compound eye learn. while the main up to date advancements were integrated in each box from optics, via photochemistry, phototransduction, integrative methods and behaviour, an try out has additionally been made to supply a ancient perspective.

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In 1644 the Italian scientist Hodierna published a work entitled L'occhio della mosca, where he described the fly's eye as looking like a raspberry. This first account of the compound eye was uncovered by Seitz (1971) but seems, apart from that, to have remained unnoticed. Hodierna's work certainly deserves more attention because he made remarkably accurate observations for the time and he also presented the first theory of compound eye function, which in fact pre-empted Muller's mosaic theory.

Q. \. p •••oQ' ""'" b.. " . •• -0........ 0. . OL---L-----~----~ 350 400 450 ____-L____-L~~~~==~ 500 550 600 mJl wave length Fig. 8. Spectral sensitivity curves of visual cells of Calliphora erythrocephala. ). These data fitted all the ealier predictions (Fig. 9). The existence of three receptors mediating color vision had been postulated in the 19th century by Young and Helmholtz. Now proofwas presented. In this instance insect vision research was ahead of vertebrate eye research, where the single cell approach was achieved only later (Marks 1965; Tomita et al.

Po....... q. \. p •••oQ' ""'" b.. " . •• -0........ 0. . OL---L-----~----~ 350 400 450 ____-L____-L~~~~==~ 500 550 600 mJl wave length Fig. 8. Spectral sensitivity curves of visual cells of Calliphora erythrocephala. ). These data fitted all the ealier predictions (Fig. 9). The existence of three receptors mediating color vision had been postulated in the 19th century by Young and Helmholtz. Now proofwas presented. In this instance insect vision research was ahead of vertebrate eye research, where the single cell approach was achieved only later (Marks 1965; Tomita et al.

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