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Distribution of Insect Visual Chromophores: Functional and Phylogenetic Aspects

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Facets of Vision

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The study of visual pigments started in earnest with the work of Boll and Kühne, both of whom were contemporaries of Exner. Whilst Boll (1876) discovered that the color of a frog retina fades when exposed to light, Kühne (1878) was the first to extract the visual pigment, finding its spectral absorptivity similar to the human spectral sensitivity under scotopic conditions.

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    Roger Clayton Hardie

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Vogt, K. (1989). Distribution of Insect Visual Chromophores: Functional and Phylogenetic Aspects. In: Stavenga, D.G., Hardie, R.C. (eds) Facets of Vision. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74082-4_7

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