BEHAVIOR OF DAPHNIA IN POLARIZED LIGHT
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- 1 October 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 123 (2) , 243-252
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1539271
Abstract
The proportion of ortho-gonally orientated responses in a population of daphnids is a function of the logarithm of the intensity ratios of the two orthogonal eliciting stimuli. Use of an overhead beam of plane polarized light with a pair of horizontally opposed, variable intensity, non-polarized light beams propagated parallel to the polarization plane of the overhead beam gives a proportion of orthogonally oriented responses consistent with the theoretical predictions of the Brewster- Fresnel internal reflection model of polarization plane detection.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: