Animal Eyes: Filtering Out the Background

Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada, Benjamin A. Palmer

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Abstract

Animals use photonic structures in their eyes to form images, enhance sensitivity and provide camouflage. A recent exciting discovery shows that the eyes of some larval mantis shrimp possess photonic crystals that function as color filters to detect bioluminescence.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)R938-R941
Number of pages4
JournalCurrent Biology
Volume29
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Oct 2019

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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