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What Can Headless Flatworms Teach Us About Vision? (1 of 9)

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What Can Headless Flatworms Teach Us About Vision? (1 of 9)

image: Flatworms avoid UV light even when their heads have been removed. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 28, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Shettigar at Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) in Bangalore, India, and colleagues was titled, 'Hierarchies in light sensing and dynamic interactions between ocular and extraocular sensory networks in a flatworm.' view more 

Credit: [Credit: Shettigar <i>et al.</i>, Sci. Adv. 2017;3: e1603025]


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