ArticleFrontiers in zoology2019
A dune with a view: the eyes of a neotropical fossorial lizard.
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- Evolution of Avian Eye Size Is Associated with Habitat Openness, Food Type and Brain Size.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Eye size and investment in frogs and toads correlate with adult habitat, activity pattern and breeding ecology.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundLizards are excellent models to study the adaptations of the visual system to different scenarios, and surface-dwelling representatives have been relatively well studied. In contrast, very little is known about the functional anatomy of the eyes of fossorial lineages, and properties such as the light transmission by the ocular media have never been characterised in any fossorial species. Some lizards in the family Gymnophthalmidae endemic to the sand dunes of North Eastern Brazil have evolved sand-burrowing habits and nocturnal activity. Lizards in the sister group to Gymnophthalmidae, the family Teiidae, have decidedly diurnal and epigeal lifestyles, yet they are equally poorly known in terms of visual systems. We focussed on the eye anatomy, photoreceptor morphology and light transmittance properties of the ocular media and oil droplets in the gymnophthalmid
resultsThe general organisation of the eyes of the fossorial nocturnal
conclusionsOur results challenge the assumption that fossorial lizards undergo loss of visual function, a claim that is usually guided by the reduced size and external morphology of their eyes. In the case of
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