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A chiton uses aragonite lenses to form images

scientific article

A dynamic broadband reflector built from microscopic silica spheres in the 'disco' clam Ctenoides ales.

scientific article

A field test of the Hamilton–Zuk hypothesis in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

scientific article published in 2007

A highly distributed Bragg stack with unique geometry provides effective camouflage for Loliginid squid eyes

scientific article

A highly distributed Bragg stack with unique geometry provides effective camouflage for Loliginid squid eyes

article by Amanda L. Holt et al published 14 December 2011 in Journal of the Royal Society Interface

A novel method for comparative analysis of retinal specialization traits from topographic maps

scientific article published on 20 November 2012

A unique advantage for giant eyes in giant squid

scientific article

A unique apposition compound eye in the mesopelagic hyperiid amphipod Paraphronima gracilis

scientific article published on 15 January 2015

Animal navigation: a noisy magnetic sense?

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Anything that involves a photon and an animal

scientific article published in January 2012

Aposematic signals in North American black widows are more conspicuous to predators than to prey

scientific article published in 2016

Autophagy and mitophagy participate in ocular lens organelle degradation.

scientific article

Bringing the analysis of animal orientation data full circle: model-based approaches with maximum likelihood.

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Candidate genes mediating magnetoreception in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).

scientific article published in April 2017

Cataract formation in a strain of rats selected for high oxidative stress

scientific article published in November 2004

Categorical colour perception occurs in both signalling and non-signalling colour ranges in a songbird

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Categorical perception of colour signals in a songbird

scientific article published in Nature

Comment on "Open-ocean fish reveal an omnidirectional solution to camouflage in polarized environments".

scientific article published in August 2016

Comparative Morphology of the Concave Mirror Eyes of Scallops (Pectinoidea)*

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Comparative visual acuity of coleoid cephalopods

scientific article published on 18 September 2007

Competition for hummingbird pollination shapes flower color variation in Andean solanaceae

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Computational visual ecology in the pelagic realm

scientific article published on 6 January 2014

Coping with copepods: do right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) forage visually in dark waters?

scientific article

Core-shell nanospheres behind the blue eyes of the bay scallop Argopecten irradians

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Crepuscular and nocturnal illumination and its effects on color perception by the nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor

scientific article published on March 2006

Cryptic and conspicuous coloration in the pelagic environment

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Cryptic coloration and mirrored sides as camouflage strategies in near-surface pelagic habitats: Implications for foraging and predator avoidance

scientific article published in 2003

Cuttlefish Sepia officinalis Preferentially Respond to Bottom Rather than Side Stimuli When Not Allowed Adjacent to Tank Walls

scientific article published on 14 October 2015

Cuttlefish see shape from shading, fine-tuning coloration in response to pictorial depth cues and directional illumination.

scientific article published in March 2016

De novo transcriptomics reveal distinct phototransduction signaling components in the retina and skin of a color-changing vertebrate, the hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus).

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Decapod diversity associated with deep-sea octocorals in the Gulf of Mexico

scientific article published in 2018

Detection of magnetic field properties using distributed sensing: a computational neuroscience approach

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Disentangling the visual cues used by a jumping spider to locate its microhabitat

scientific article published on 3 June 2016

Distribution, spherical structure and predicted Mie scattering of multilamellar bodies in human age-related nuclear cataracts.

scientific article published in October 2004

Diverse nanostructures underlie thin ultra-black scales in butterflies

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Does new technology inspire new directions? Examples drawn from pelagic visual ecology

scientific article published on 22 May 2007

Downwelling spectral irradiance during evening twilight as a function of the lunar phase

scientific article published on February 2015

Eavesdropping on visual secrets

scientific article published on 22 June 2013

Effect of a magnetic pulse on orientation behavior in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Effects of molting on the visual acuity of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus

scientific article published in September 2011

Electron tomography of fiber cell cytoplasm and dense cores of multilamellar bodies from human age-related nuclear cataracts.

scientific article

Evidence that eye-facing photophores serve as a reference for counterillumination in an order of deep-sea fishes

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Evolution of graded refractive index in squid lenses

scientific article

Examining the Effects of Chromatic Aberration, Object Distance, and Eye Shape on Image-Formation in the Mirror-Based Eyes of the Bay Scallop Argopecten irradians.

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Extraocular, Non-Visual, and Simple Photoreceptors: An Introduction to the Symposium

scientific article published on 04 August 2016

Fluorescence as a means of colour signal enhancement

scientific article published on July 2017

Freezing behaviour facilitates bioelectric crypsis in cuttlefish faced with predation risk

scientific article published in December 2015

From Photon to Neuron: Light, Imaging, Vision

scholarly article published in June 2018

Genomic signatures of G-protein-coupled receptor expansions reveal functional transitions in the evolution of cephalopod signal transduction

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Giant deep-sea protist produces bilaterian-like traces

scientific article (publication date: December 2008)

Glassfrogs conceal blood in their liver to maintain transparency

scientific article published on 23 December 2022

Gray whales strand more often on days with increased levels of atmospheric radio-frequency noise

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) population history indicates important demographic changes near the mid-Pleistocene transition

scientific article published in 2018

Hide and seek in the open sea: pelagic camouflage and visual countermeasures

scientific article published on 21 August 2013

How to measure color using spectrometers and calibrated photographs

scientific article

Identification and Ultrastructural Characterization of a Novel Nuclear Degradation Complex in Differentiating Lens Fiber Cells

scientific article

Immunological dependence of plant-dwelling animals on the medicinal properties of their plant substrates: a preliminary test of a novel evolutionary hypothesis

scientific article published in 2015

Insect communication: Polarized light as a butterfly mating signal

scientific article

Insights into the Biodiversity, Behavior, and Bioluminescence of Deep-Sea Organisms Using Molecular and Maritime Technology

scientific article published in 2017

Lifting the cloak of invisibility: the effects of changing optical conditions on pelagic crypsis.

scientific article

Light and vision in the deep-sea benthos: I. Bioluminescence at 500-1000 m depth in the Bahamian islands

scientific article

Light and vision in the deep-sea benthos: II. Vision in deep-sea crustaceans

scientific article published in October 2012

Light-dependent magnetoreception: quantum catches and opponency mechanisms of possible photosensitive molecules

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Light-emitting suckers in an octopus

scientific article published in Nature

Magnetoreception in animals

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Mesopelagic cephalopods switch between transparency and pigmentation to optimize camouflage in the deep

scientific article published on 10 November 2011

Mie light scattering calculations for an Indian age-related nuclear cataract with a high density of multilamellar bodies.

scientific article

Modelling colour constancy in fish: implications for vision and signalling in water.

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Multilamellar spherical particles as potential sources of excessive light scattering in human age-related nuclear cataracts ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Multiple origins of green coloration in frogs mediated by a novel biliverdin-binding serpin

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Mutual visual signalling between the cleaner shrimp and its client fish

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Nanostructures and Monolayers of Spheres Reduce Surface Reflections in Hyperiid Amphipods

scientific article

Near absence of differential gene expression in the retina of rainbow trout after exposure to a magnetic pulse: implications for magnetoreception

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Novel mitochondrial derived Nuclear Excisosome degrades nuclei during differentiation of prosimian Galago (bush baby) monkey lenses

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Open Questions: We don't really know anything, do we? Open questions in sensory biology

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Orientation in Pill Bugs: An Interdisciplinary Activity to Engage Students in Concepts of Biology, Physics & Circular Statistics

scientific article published in 2018

Orientation to Objects in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus depends on apparent and not actual object size

scientific article published in April 2011

Orienting to Polarized Light at Night-Matching Lunar Skylight to Performance in a Nocturnal Beetle

scholarly article published 10 July 2018

Orienting to polarized light at night - matching lunar skylight to performance in a nocturnal beetle

scientific article published on 28 January 2019

Pheromones exert top-down effects on visual recognition in the jumping spider Lyssomanes viridis

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

Polarisation signals: a new currency for communication

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Polarization sensitivity as a contrast enhancer in pelagic predators: lessons from in situ polarization imaging of transparent zooplankton

scientific article

Polarization sensitivity in the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii enhances the detection of moving transparent objects

scientific article published in May 2006

Polarization vision seldom increases the sighting distance of silvery fish.

scientific article

Predicted light scattering from particles observed in human age-related nuclear cataracts using mie scattering theory.

scientific article published in January 2007

Propagation and perception of bioluminescence: factors affecting counterillumination as a cryptic strategy.

scientific article published in August 2004

Psychophysics and the evolution of behavior

scientific article published on 11 April 2014

Pulse magnetization elicits differential gene expression in the central nervous system of the Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

Responses of hatchling sea turtles to rotational displacements

scientific article published in 2003

Scallops visually respond to the size and speed of virtual particles

scientific article

Simple fixation and storage protocol for preserving the internal structure of intact human donor lenses and extracted human nuclear cataract specimens

scientific article

Simplifying numerical ray tracing for characterization of optical systems

2014 scientific article

Spatial vision in the echinoid genus Echinometra

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

Spectral sensitivity in ray-finned fishes: diversity, ecology, and shared descent

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

Spectral sensitivity of the concave mirror eyes of scallops: potential influences of habitat, self-screening and longitudinal chromatic aberration

scientific article

Spectral sensitivity, spatial resolution and temporal resolution and their implications for conspecific signalling in cleaner shrimp

scientific article published on 8 January 2016

Studying the swift, smart, and shy: Unobtrusive camera-platforms for observing large deep-sea squid

scientific article published on 19 April 2021

Testing Mechanisms of Vision: Sea Urchin Spine Density Does Not Correlate with Vision-Related Environmental Characteristics

scientific article published on 22 July 2022

The Earth's Magnetic Field and Visual Landmarks Steer Migratory Flight Behavior in the Nocturnal Australian Bogong Moth

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The Optics of Life

scientific article

The cleaner shrimp Lysmata amboinensis adjusts its behaviour towards predatory versus non-predatory clients

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

The effect of aggregation on visibility in open water.

scientific article

The effects of salinity and temperature on the transparency of the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

The giant eyes of giant squid are indeed unexpectedly large, but not if used for spotting sperm whales

scientific article

The importance of color in mate choice of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus

scientific article published in November 2009

The male blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, uses both chromatic and achromatic cues during mate choice

scientific article published in April 2012

The movement ecology of fishes

scientific article published on 25 July 2022

The physics and neurobiology of magnetoreception

scientific article

The red and the black: bioluminescence and the color of animals in the deep sea.

scientific article published in April 2005

The sensory impacts of climate change: bathymetric shifts and visually mediated interactions in aquatic species

scientific article published on 21 April 2021

The visual ecology of selective predation: Are unhealthy hosts less stealthy hosts?

scientific article published in 2021

Transparent anemone shrimp (Ancylomenes pedersoni) become opaque after exercise and physiological stress in correlation with increased hemolymph perfusion.

scientific article

Twilight spectral dynamics and the coral reef invertebrate spawning response

scientific article published on March 2011

Two eyes for two purposes: in situ evidence for asymmetric vision in the cockeyed squids Histioteuthis heteropsis and Stigmatoteuthis dofleini

scientific article published in April 2017

Ultra-black Camouflage in Deep-Sea Fishes

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Ultrastructural analysis of damage to nuclear fiber cell membranes in advanced age-related cataracts from India.

scientific article published on 24 May 2008

Ultrastructural analysis of the human lens fiber cell remodeling zone and the initiation of cellular compaction.

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Ultraviolet vision and foraging in juvenile bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)

Underwater linear polarization: physical limitations to biological functions

scientific article

Using RGB displays to portray color realistic imagery to animal eyes.

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Variation in carotenoid-containing retinal oil droplets correlates with variation in perception of carotenoid coloration

scientific article published in 2020

Variation in rod spectral sensitivity of fishes is best predicted by habitat and depth

scientific article published on 26 December 2018

Vision and the light environment.

scientific article published in November 2013

Visual Acuity and the Evolution of Signals.

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Visual acuity in pelagic fishes and mollusks.

scientific article

Visual acuity in ray-finned fishes correlates with eye size and habitat

scientific article

Visual perception of light organ patterns in deep-sea shrimps and implications for conspecific recognition

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Von Uexküll Revisited: Addressing Human Biases in the Study of Animal Perception

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Weaponry, color, and contest success in the jumping spider Lyssomanes viridis.

scientific article

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