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Red-sensitive pigments in mantis shrimp eyes act as reversible light switches
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What we know
With about 30 visual pigments, compared to just three in humans, mantis shrimp possess a visual system that remains a mystery. Researchers from ULiège and Humboldt University in Berlin have, for the first time, analyzed these pigments one by one and discovered that some detect red light that very few…
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Red-sensitive pigments in mantis shrimp eyes act as reversible light switches
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