Photonic crystal light collectors in fish retina improve vision in turbid water

Science

Volumn 336, Issue 6089, 2012, Pages 1700-1703

  Kreysing, Moritz ^a,b   Pusch, Roland ^c   Haverkate, Dorothee ^d   Landsberger, Meik ^c   Engelmann, Jacob ^c,e   Ruiter, Janina ^f   Mora Ferrer, Carlos ^g   Ulbricht, Elke ^f,h   Grosche, Jens ^f   Franze, Kristian ^a,f,h   Streif, Stefan ⁱ   Schumacher, Sarah ^c   Makarov, Felix ^j   Kacza, Johannes ^f   Guck, Jochen ^a,k   Wolburg, Hartwig ^l   Bowmaker, James K ^m   Von Der Emde, Gerhard ^c   Schuster, Stefan ^d   Wagner, Hans Joachim ^l   Reichenbach, Andreas ^f   Francke, Mike ^a,f   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^e BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^g JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^k DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE; HABITAT TYPE; LIGHT EFFECT; OPTIMIZATION; SPECIALIZATION; TELEOST; TURBIDITY; VISION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FISH; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TURBIDITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WATER QUALITY;

GNATHONEMUS PETERSII; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862979841     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1218072     Document Type: Article

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