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What Can Headless Flatworms Teach Us About Vision? (3 of 9)

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What Can Headless Flatworms Teach Us About Vision? (3 of 9)

image: Flatworms can distinguish between different wavelengths of light even though their simple eyes only contain one type of receptor. 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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