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Vision in the fireflyPhoturis lucicrescens(Coleoptera: Lampyridae): Spectral sensitivity and selective adaptation in the compound eye

✍ Scribed by Abner B. Lall; Egbert T. Lord; C. Ovid Trouth

Publisher
Springer
Year
1982
Tongue
English
Weight
515 KB
Volume
147
Category
Article
ISSN
0340-7594

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## Abstract Changes in visual sensitivity as a function of time‐of‐day were studied in the firefly __Photuris versicolor__. The electroretinograms (ERGs) elicited by photic stimuli of constant intensity and duration were recorded over long periods (18–52 h) while the insect was in constant darkness