Eyestalk Movements Induced by Polarized Light in the Ghost Crab, Ocypode quadrata
- 8 September 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 134 (3480) , 675-676
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.134.3480.675
Abstract
Differential visual sensitivity to vertical and horizontal linear polarization is shown in the light-induced eyestalk deviations of Ocypode quadrata. Responses with the e -vector vertical averaged about 6° greater than those with e-vector horizontal. This difference approximates the relative eyestalk deviation induced by unpolarized light intensities having a ratio of 3:1.Keywords
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