ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2018
Diversity and common themes in the organization of ocelli in Hymenoptera, Odonata and Diptera.
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- Polarized light detection in bumblebees varies with light intensity and is mediated by both the ocelli and compound eyes.Biology letters · 2024Article
- A second view on the evolution of flight in stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea).BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
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- EyeVolve, a modular PYTHON based model for simulating developmental eye type diversification.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Article
- Ocellar spatial vision in Myrmecia ants.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Spatial Vision and Visually Guided Behavior in Apidae.Insects · 2019Review
- Ocellar structure of African and Australian desert ants.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
We show in a comparative analysis that distinct retinal specializations in insect ocelli are much more common than previously realized and that the rhabdom organization of ocellar photoreceptors is extremely diverse. Hymenoptera, Odonata and Diptera show prominent equatorial fovea-like indentations of the ocellar retinae, where distal receptor endings are furthest removed from the lens surface and receptor densities are highest. In contrast, rhabdomere arrangements are very diverse across insect groups: in Hymenoptera, with some exceptions, pairs of ocellar retinular cells form sheet-like rhabdoms that form elongated rectangular shapes in cross-section, with highly aligned microvilli directions perpendicular to the long axis of cross-sections. This arrangement makes most ocellar retinular cells in Hymenoptera sensitive to the direction of polarized light. In dragonflies, triplets of retinular cells form a y-shaped fused rhabdom with microvilli directions oriented at 60° to each other. In Dipteran ocellar retinular cells microvilli directions are randomised, which destroys polarization sensitivity. We suggest that the differences in ocellar organization between insect groups may reflect the different head attitude control systems that have evolved in these insect groups, but possibly also differences in the mode of locomotion and in the need for celestial compass information.
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