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SUBMITTER: Taylor GJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6391067 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Taylor Gavin J GJ Tichit Pierre P Schmidt Marie D MD Bodey Andrew J AJ Rau Christoph C Baird Emily E
eLife 20190226
The quality of visual information that is available to an animal is limited by the size of its eyes. Differences in eye size can be observed even between closely related individuals, yet we understand little about how this affects vision. Insects are good models for exploring the effects of size on visual systems because many insect species exhibit size polymorphism. Previous work has been limited by difficulties in determining the 3D structure of eyes. We have developed a novel method based on ...[more]