Fifteen shades of photoreceptor in a butterfly's eye

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 21:56 in Biology & Nature

The eyes of an Australasian butterfly contain a record fifteen classes of light-detecting photoreceptors, six more than any other insect and far more than necessary for color vision.

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