New perspective published in PNAS about fluorescence in tetrapods. Briefly: Fluorescence is probably usually not a visual signal, but that doesn't mean it isn't interesting! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Our press office put together an excellent video about our recent paper on the googly eyes of alciopid worms: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHPF... 🧪
The wide-eyed sea worm Vanadis has long interested the world's vision scientists. But the worm has been difficult to study because it lives in the open sea and is only active at night. Now a research team has managed to locate an Italian worm colony and can establish that the worm has a completely unique sight.
New paper on the wonderful googly eyes of alciopid worms out now in CurrentBiology! We found that alongside vertebrates, arthropods, and cephalopods, this group of polychaetes is capable of high-resolution vision - but mysteries remain...🪱 👀 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This fall, we will again be running the renowned Sensory Ecology postgrad course here in Lund. Find information and sign up at the link below. Registration is on a first come-first serve basis. 🧪 biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...
As a last-minute holiday treat, please enjoy our new pre-print on the development of spider visual systems! We compared seven species, representing all major clades and a range of visual ecologies and morphologies, and identified some new clues 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Woah! Quite the peepers for an olipones!
New Zealand harvestperson (creature deserved its own post): www.inaturalist.org/observations... Like that's a normal harvestperson but someone gave it horse eyes 🌿🕷️#InverteFest
Acropsopilio neozelandiae from Bealey 7580, New Zealand on February 13, 2019 at 11:44 AM by Gonzalo Giribet. Acropsopilio neozealandiae
Excited to be in beautiful Cambridge today to meet with researchers and give the Zoology seminar this afternoon at 16:00 in the Zoology Part II Lecture Theatre!
