ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2015
Three spectrally distinct photoreceptors in diurnal and nocturnal Australian ants.
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- Subtle changes in the landmark panorama disrupt visual navigation in a nocturnal bull ant.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Spectral Skyline Separation: Extended Landmark Databases and Panoramic Imaging.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016Article
- A fast multispectral light synthesiser based on LEDs and a diffraction grating.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Migration control: a distance compensation strategy in ants.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2016Article
- Compound eye and ocellar structure for walking and flying modes of locomotion in the Australian ant, Camponotus consobrinus.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- How do field of view and resolution affect the information content of panoramic scenes for visual navigation? A computational investigation.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2016Article
- Three-dimensional models of natural environments and the mapping of navigational information.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Ants are thought to be special among Hymenopterans in having only dichromatic colour vision based on two spectrally distinct photoreceptors. Many ants are highly visual animals, however, and use vision extensively for navigation. We show here that two congeneric day- and night-active Australian ants have three spectrally distinct photoreceptor types, potentially supporting trichromatic colour vision. Electroretinogram recordings show the presence of three spectral sensitivities with peaks (λmax) at 370, 450 and 550 nm in the night-active Myrmecia vindex and peaks at 370, 470 and 510 nm in the day-active Myrmecia croslandi. Intracellular electrophysiology on individual photoreceptors confirmed that the night-active M. vindex has three spectral sensitivities with peaks (λmax) at 370, 430 and 550 nm. A large number of the intracellular recordings in the night-active M. vindex show unusually broad-band spectral sensitivities, suggesting that photoreceptors may be coupled. Spectral measurements at different temporal frequencies revealed that the ultraviolet receptors are comparatively slow. We discuss the adaptive significance and the probability of trichromacy in Myrmecia ants in the context of dim light vision and visual navigation.
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