The visual system of vertebrates has greatly contributed to our understanding of how different molecular mechanisms shape adaptive phenotypic diversity. Extensive work on …
Vertebrates rely on two special groups of photoreceptor cells (rods and cones) in the retina to receive visual information. Five opsin families in the outer segment of cone cells endow …
Animal colour patterns are complex and highly diverse traits that are used for intraand inter- specific communication, thermoregulation and predator avoidance, including aposematism …
Trapped behind our own eyes we have a strong feeling of looking out at reality, perceiving the world with the detail and colours conveyed by the spatial and spectral sampling of our …