Animal Eyes: Filtering Out the Background

Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada; Benjamin A. Palmer

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.035

Animal Eyes: Filtering Out the Background

Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada, Benjamin A. Palmer

Department of Chemistry

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	R938-R941
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	29
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.035
State	Published - 7 Oct 2019

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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all)

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