Navigational Efficiency of Nocturnal Myrmecia Ants Suffers at Low Light Levels

A Narendra, SF Reid, CA Raderschall - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Insects face the challenge of navigating to specific goals in both bright sun-lit and dim-lit
environments. Both diurnal and nocturnal insects use quite similar navigation strategies …

Polarisation vision in the dark: green-sensitive photoreceptors in the nocturnal ball-rolling dung beetle Escarabaeus satyrus

A Yilmaz, G Belušič, JJ Foster… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Many insects utilise the polarisation pattern of the sky to adjust their travelling directions. The
extraction of directional information from this sky-wide cue is mediated by specialised …

Color morphs of the fire salamander are discriminated at night by conspecifics and predators

P Aguilar, G Pérez i de Lanuza… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The coexistence of multiple discrete color phenotypes (ie color polymorphism) has been
studied in many diurnal species where environmental light allows most visual systems to …

The role of ecological factors in shaping bat cone opsin evolution

EA Gutierrez, RK Schott… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Bats represent one of the largest and most striking nocturnal mammalian radiations,
exhibiting many visual system specializations for performance in light-limited environments …

Why aye‐ayes see blue

AD Melin, GL Moritz, RAE Fosbury… - American journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The capacity for cone‐mediated color vision varies among nocturnal primates. Some
species are colorblind, having lost the functionality of their short‐wavelength‐sensitive‐1 …

Moving in dim light: behavioral and visual adaptations in nocturnal ants

A Narendra, JF Kamhi, Y Ogawa - Integrative and Comparative …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Visual navigation is a benchmark information processing task that can be used to identify the
consequence of being active in dim-light environments. Visual navigational information that …

Functional shifts in bat dim-light visual pigment are associated with differing echolocation abilities and reveal molecular adaptation to photic-limited environments

EA Gutierrez, GM Castiglione… - Molecular Biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Bats are excellent models for studying the molecular basis of sensory adaptation. In
Chiroptera, a sensory trade-off has been proposed between the visual and auditory systems …

A pixel-encoder retinal ganglion cell with spatially offset excitatory and inhibitory receptive fields

KP Johnson, L Zhao, D Kerschensteiner - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
The spike trains of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the only source of visual information to
the brain. Here, we genetically identify an RGC type in mice that functions as a pixel encoder …

Floral signal complexity as a possible adaptation to environmental variability: a test using nectar-foraging bumblebees, Bombus impatiens

RL Kaczorowski, AS Leonard, A Dornhaus, DR Papaj - Animal Behaviour, 2012 - Elsevier
Floral signals are typically emitted across multiple sensory modalities, although why they are
multimodal is unclear. One possible explanation is that multimodal signalling ensures that at …

An aposematic colour‐polymorphic moth seen through the eyes of conspecifics and predators–Sensitivity and colour discrimination in a tiger moth

MJ Henze, O Lind, J Mappes, B Rojas… - Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Although predation is commonly thought to exert the strongest selective pressure on
coloration in aposematic species, sexual selection may also influence coloration …