昆虫の飛翔である. 照明に依存する視覚処理は,弱光下でも蝶の飛行を可能にします

Simon Sponberg1, Jonathan P Dyhr2, Robert W Hall3

  • 1Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. School of Physics and School of Applied Physiology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. sponberg@physics.gatech.edu.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 13, 2015
PubMed
まとめ

蝶は,よりよく見るために薄暗い光の中で視覚処理を遅らせますが,これは反応を遅らせます. 夕暮れに飛ぶは,感度と速度をバランスして,動く花を効果的に追跡します.

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