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Pigments in Compound Eyes

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Facets of Vision

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Vision has evolved because of the universal presence of pigments, i.e., substances which absorb light in the visible and thus provide objects with their color. The visual instruments themselves, the eyes, can also only properly execute their function by virtue of the pigments they contain. Three classes of eye pigments can readily be distinguished. Primarily, of course, the photolabile visual pigments, which absorb the light entering the eye and then trigger the phototransduction chain, and the related retinoid-binding proteins, which together maintain visual pigment concentration and thus light sensitivity. Secondly, the photostable screening pigments, whose main function is to block out unwanted stray light. A third class comprises the pigments in the mitochondrial respiratory chain, universally present in eukaryotic cells; the aptly called cytochromes, together with the functionally related flavoproteins and NADH.

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Stavenga, D.G. (1989). Pigments in Compound Eyes. In: Stavenga, D.G., Hardie, R.C. (eds) Facets of Vision. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74082-4_8

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