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JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 186, 期 4, 页码 399-407出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050439
关键词
vision; photoreceptor; insect; thermoregulation; temporal acuity
A hot head gives an insect a clearer view of a moving world because warming reduces motion blur by accelerating photoreceptor responses. Over a natural temperature range, 19-34 degrees C, the speed of response of blowfly (Calliphora vicina) photoreceptors more than doubles. to produce the fastest functional responses recorded from an ocular photoreceptor. This acceleration increases temporal resolving power, as indicated by the corner frequency of the response power spectrum. When light adapted, the corner frequency increases from 53 Hz to 119 Hz with a Q(10) of 1.9, and when dark adapted from 8 Hz to 32 Hz with a Q(10) of 3.0. Temperature sensitivity originates in the phototransduction cascade, and is associated with signal amplification. The temperature sensitivity of photoreceptors must be taken into account when studying the mechanisms, function and ecology of vision, and gives a distinct advantage to insects that thermoregulate.
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