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Johan Westö1, Petri Ala-Laurila2
1Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
Neuron
|July 24, 2020
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How can fish see tiny underwater prey invisible to human eyes? In this issue of Neuron, Yoshimatsu et al. (2020) show that ultraviolet light and a rich set of fine-tuned anatomical and neural specializations originating in ultraviolet-sensitive cones underlie high-resolution prey-capture behavior in larval zebrafish.
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