... by different animals across taxa. Summary: Vision is a system of particular interest for studying the adaptation of animals to their environments. The visual system enables a wide variety of animals across the vertebrate lineage to interact with their environments, presenting a fantastic opportunity to examine...

.... … nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution … Theodosius Dobzhansky Audition Cladistics Diencephalon Dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus Interneurons Medial geniculate nucleus, ventral division Vision © 2023 S. Karger AG, Basel Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2021 Cerebral cortex Dopamine Neuromodulators Schizophrenia Sensory systems Vision...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2020 Ray-finned fishes Hypothalamus Inferior lobe Vision Cognition Social behavior Brain evolution Ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii), including bichirs...

.... Dorsal thalamus Horseradish peroxidase Rana pipiens Thalamus Vision The vertebrate retina projects to several discrete targets in the midbrain and the diencephalon. Behavioral evidence from ablation studies reveals that different visual areas process different types of visual information...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Acanthogobius flavimanus Feeding strategies Mudskipper Periophthalmus modestus Retinal topography Vision Yellowfin goby The mudflats in estuaries provide rich environments...

...Thomas J. Lisney; Douglas R. Wylie; Jeffrey Kolominsky; Andrew N. Iwaniuk Hummingbirds are a group of small, highly specialized birds that display a range of adaptations to their nectarivorous lifestyle. Vision plays a key role in hummingbird feeding and hovering behaviours, yet very little...

...Tomo Takiyama; Valdir Luna da Silva; Daniel Moura Silva; Sawako Hamasaki; Masayuki Yoshida Apteronotus albifrons (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) is well known to have a sophisticated active electrosense system and is commonly described as having poor vision or being almost blind. However, some...

... interplay between phylogenetic history, visual anatomy and ecology. 31 07 2013 9 12 2013 28 02 2014 Mammals exhibit substantial variation in visual acuity (i.e. the ability to resolve spatial details), ranging from the low acuity vision of microchiropteran bats and small rodents (0.4...

.... The parvocellular layers of the LGN are involved in color vision. Therefore, it is hypothesized that a 6-layered LGN is a shared-derived trait among catarrhines. This might suggest that in gibbons the lack of further subdivisions of the parvocellular layers is a recent change, and could be related...

... the sensory strategies that elasmobranchs use for navigating within their environment, forming reproductive aggregations, feeding, and even communicating. One approach to investigate the sensory bases of their behavior is to examine the peripheral sense organs mediating vision, olfaction, gustation, lateral...

... cells, the relative size of this brain region has been associated with an increased reliance on vision in other vertebrate groups, including bony fishes. The neuroecological relationships between the relative size of the optic tectum and primary habitat and lifestyle we present here for cartilaginous...

.... 2011 Vision Ganglion cell Photoreceptor Oil droplet Visual acuity Neuroethology Topography Behavioural ecology The retina is one of the most easily accessible parts of the central nervous system in vertebrates. This thin sheet of nervous tissue that lines the back of the eye...

...., 2006; Huchon et al., 2007]. On the other hand, Norway rats and Nile grass rats are separated by approximately 10 million years [Chevret et al., 1993]. Thus, these comparisons may better reveal alterations to the nervous system due to the acquisition of diurnal vision. Recent anatomical data in our...

... of increased cell density in the naso-ventral region of the retina, mediating acute vision in the upper caudal region of the visual field. While all 4 species have visual systems optimised for increased visual sensitivity, O . maculatus and O . parvimaculatus appear to be particularly well suited to activity...

... mosaic Ultraviolet Vision The visual system has evolved to provide a means of detecting the physical properties of light in the visual environment. The challenge for visual biologists is to understand the salient characteristics of light that impinge on visual photoreceptors and that change...

... a sufficient contrast against the background, rather than on their own particular levels of illumination [see Kaul and Kopteva, 1982]. Since several recent reviews exhaustively cover the topic of nocturnal vision in arthropods [Laughlin, 1990; Warrant, 2004, 2006, 2008a, b], only the briefest description...

... Rods Vision Visual pigments Several ‘stages’ of the evolution of the chordate photoreceptor have recently been traced from tunicates to gnathostomes [Lamb et al., 2007]. These stages are illustrated in figure 1 , where the sequential acquisition of morphological features in the ascidian...

... Octavolateralis Predation Sensorimotor integration Vision and their performance was significantly better than that of the group receiving the compression pulse in normal aquarium water (p<0.01; %2= 17.5) and similar to that of the goldfish receiving the light stimulus on the same side as the sound source...

... binocular vision may play a functional role in the survival of this species. In order to test this hypothesis, we examined the retinal distribution of ipsilateral retinal ganglion cells that project to the mediorostral tectum and the size and location of the binocular visual field. Cell distribution...