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

Curr Biol. 2019 Oct 7;29(19):R938-R941. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.035.

Authors

Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada¹, Benjamin A Palmer²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel.
² Department of Chemistry and The Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 8410501, Israel. Electronic address: bpalmer@bgu.ac.il.

PMID: 31593672
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.035

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.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Color
Crustacea*
Larva
Mantodea*
Retina