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ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2025

Visual physiology of Australian stingless bees.

Bhavana Penmetcha, Laura A Ryan, Yuri Ogawa, Nathan S Hart, Ajay Narendra

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Article in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Photoreceptor recordings reveal remarkable acuity in small solitary bees compared with larger species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Bhavana Penmetcha *School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2019, Australia.
Laura A Ryan *School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2019, Australia.
Yuri OgawaSchool of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2019, Australia.
Nathan S HartSchool of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2019, Australia.
Ajay NarendraSchool of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2019, Australia. ajay.narendra@mq.edu.au.

Funding

Australian Research Council DP150101172, DP220102836
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stingless bees engage in a range of visually guided behaviours that require relatively high spatial resolution and contrast sensitivity. Although the eyes of honeybees, bumblebees, carpenter bees, and sweat bees have been studied extensively, there is limited knowledge of stingless bees. Here, we studied two sympatric Australian species, Tetragonula carbonaria and Austroplebeia australis, which are important crop pollinators. The bigger A. australis had more and larger ommatidial facets compared to T. carbonaria. Using pattern electroretinography, we showed that A. australis had higher contrast sensitivity (13.07) compared to T. carbonaria (5.99), but their spatial resolving power did not differ (0.53 cycles deg

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BeesCompound Eye, ArthropodFeeding BehaviorVision, OcularAnimalsAustraliaContrast SensitivitySpecies SpecificityBee visionCompound eyeForaging ecologypERGVisual acuity

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PMID40392294
PMCPMC12321664

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