Publication Date:
1999-11-05
Description:
The eyes of strepsipteran insects are very unusual among living insects. In their anatomical organization they may form a modern counterpart to the structural plan proposed for the eyes of some trilobites. Externally they differ from the usual "insect plan" by presenting far fewer but much larger lenses. Beneath each lens is its own independent retina. Anatomical and optical measurements indicate that each of these units is image-forming, so that the visual field is subdivided into and represented by "chunks," unlike the conventional insect compound eye that decomposes the visual image in a pointwise manner. This results in profound changes in the neural centers for vision and implies major evolutionary changes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Buschbeck, E -- Ehmer, B -- Hoy, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Nov 5;286(5442):1178-80.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Neurobiology and Behavior, Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10550059" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
;
Biological Evolution
;
Eye/anatomy & histology
;
Insects/*anatomy & histology/physiology
;
Lens, Crystalline/*anatomy & histology/physiology
;
Male
;
Optic Chiasm/anatomy & histology/physiology
;
Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/*anatomy & histology/physiology
;
Vision, Ocular/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
