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    Tuning of photoreceptor spectral sensitivity in fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

    Sexual communication between male and female fireflies involves the visual detection of species-specific bioluminescent signals. Firefly species vary spectrally in both their emitted light and in the sensitiv...

    T. W. Cronin, M. Järvilehto, M. Weckström in Journal of Comparative Physiology A (2000)

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    Morphological and functional characteristics of arpa (receptor potential absent) visual mutant of the blowfly (Calliphora erythrocephala)

    1. We have discovered a previously unreported visual mutant of the blowfly,Calliphora erythrocephala. It shows a...

    P. Torkkeli, M. Weckström, E. Kouvalainen in Journal of Comparative Physiology A (1989)

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    The transmission of information by first and second order neurons in the fly visual system

    1. Random (white noise) fluctuations of both point and wide field light sources were presented to eyes of the fl...

    A. S. French, M. Järvilehto in Journal of comparative physiology (1978)

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    Direkte Beobachtung der Rhabdomere bei Calliphora erythrocephala (Meig.)

    If the living eye of Calliphora erythrocephala is illuminated “antidromically” (from behind) and viewed through a microscope of medium aperture, the rhabdomeres of each ommatidium within a large area can be seen ...

    R. Gemperlein, M. Järvilehto in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Physiologie (1969)