Lund Vision Group, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegaten 35, S-22362 Lund, Sweden.
Curr Biol. 2016 Oct 10;26(19):R900-R902. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.08.018.
Butterfly eyes are random mosaics built of three ommatidia types, each with a different set of photoreceptors and pigments. What defines the combined features in each ommatidium? A new study has solved the puzzle.
蝴蝶的眼睛是由三种小眼类型随机镶嵌而成的,每一种小眼类型都有不同的光感受器和色素。那么是什么决定了每个小眼组合的特征呢?一项新的研究已经解决了这个难题。