Biomaterial Database

Insect Vision: Novel Mechanism for Contrast Constancy in Dim Light. 2020

Joseph Fabian, and Karin Nordström, and Yuri Ogawa

Centre for Neuroscience, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, 5001 Adelaide, SA, Australia. Electronic address: Joseph.Fabian@flinders.edu.au.

A general problem of sensory systems is how to simultaneously encode prevailing input as well as deviations from this baseline. A new study shows how the fly visual system has solved this by using parallel processing.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007313	Insecta	Members of the phylum ARTHROPODA composed or organisms characterized by division into three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. They are the dominant group of animals on earth with several hundred thousand different kinds. Three orders, HEMIPTERA; DIPTERA; and SIPHONAPTERA; are of medical interest in that they cause disease in humans and animals. (From Borror et al., An Introduction to the Study of Insects, 4th ed, p1).	Insects,Insect
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D014785	Vision, Ocular	The process in which light signals are transformed by the PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS into electrical signals which can then be transmitted to the brain.	Vision,Light Signal Transduction, Visual,Ocular Vision,Visual Light Signal Transduction,Visual Phototransduction,Visual Transduction,Phototransduction, Visual,Transduction, Visual