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Mosquito eye design: conical rhabdoms are matched to wide aperture lenses

Night-active mosquitoes have photopigment-containing rhabdoms that take the form of a wide hollow cone, with the distal apex at the focus of the ommatidial lens. It is shown geometrically, and with the aid of a gelatin model, that such a structure can trap light over an angle of up to 60 deg, roughl...

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Hoofdauteurs: Land, M. F., Gibson, G., Horwood, J.
Formaat: Artigo
Taal:Inglês
Gepubliceerd in: 1997
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Online toegang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1688568/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1997.0163
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