Fly eyes get the whole picture

Kevin Moses ()
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Kevin Moses: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus

Nature, 2006, vol. 443, issue 7112, 638-639

Abstract: The compound eyes of ancestral flies picked up only one picture point in each facet. The evolution of a means to split up the light-sensitive cells increased this number to seven, boosting the eye's resolution greatly.

Date: 2006
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