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Pupil and Pseudopupil in the Compound Eye of Drosophila

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Information Processing in the Visual Systems of Anthropods

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An explanation is given of the phenomenon of “deep pseudopupil” in the compound eye of Drosophila. This phenomenon is here exploited as a technique which, combined with that of optical neutralization of the corneal lenslets, permits the real time analysis of the rapid pigment migration occuring in receptor cells 1 to 6 under bright adaptation.

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Franceschini, N. (1972). Pupil and Pseudopupil in the Compound Eye of Drosophila. In: Wehner, R. (eds) Information Processing in the Visual Systems of Anthropods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65477-0_10

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