ArticleScience advances2022
Polarization vision mitigates visual noise from flickering light underwater.
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- Transmission through muscle tissue shapes polarization signals during cuttlefish courtship.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Motion After-Effects Induced by Dynamic Illumination in Crab Vision.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Stealth and deception: Adaptive motion camouflage in hunting broadclub cuttlefish.Science advances · 2025Article
- Polarized vision in the eyes of the most effective predators: dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata).Die Naturwissenschaften · 2025Review
- Two Decapod Crustaceans,Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Underwater target laser polarization suppression scattering detection technology and verification.PloS one · 2024Article
- Polarization vision in terrestrial hermit crabs.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- The neural basis of visual processing and behavior in cephalopods.Current biology : CB · 2023Review
- Measurements of large optical rotary dispersion in the adipose eyelid of Atlantic mackerel (Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- All camouflage strategies are not equal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Dazzled by shine: gloss as an antipredator strategy in fast moving prey.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
In shallow water, downwelling light is refracted from surface waves onto the substrate creating bands of light that fluctuate in both time and space, known as caustics. This dynamic illumination can be a visual hindrance for animals in shallow underwater environments. Animals in such habitats may have evolved to use polarization vision for discriminating objects while ignoring the variations in illumination caused by caustics. To explore this possibility, crabs (
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