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How is light perceived? The answer that might immediately come to mind is, through the eyes. Fly larvae, however, can 'feel' light using specialized neurons embedded under the cuticle encasing their bodies. See Article p.921

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Figure 1: A Drosophila larva.

CHUN HAN, UCSF

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  1. Paul A. Garrity is in the Department of Biology and National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9110, USA. pgarrity@brandeis.edu,

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Garrity, P. Feel the light. Nature 468, 900–901 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468900a

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