Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA.
Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Eglin AFB, FL 32542, USA.
Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2022 Aug;52:100914. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2022.100914. Epub 2022 Mar 26.
Under strong selective pressure for survival, image-forming vision set off an ongoing predatory arms race 500 million years ago. Since then, and particularly so in the arthropods, predatory behavior has driven a myriad of eye adaptations that increase visual performance. In this review, we provide examples of how different arthropod predators have achieved improvements in key visual features such as spatial and temporal resolution of their retina. We then describe morphological, neural and behavioral strategies used by animals in this group to gather crucial information about the prey, such as its distance, velocity and size. We also highlight the importance of head and body tracking movements to aid in categorizing the potential prey, and briefly mention the ongoing work on the sensorimotor transformations necessary for target interception.
在强烈的生存选择压力下，形成图像的视觉在 5 亿年前引发了一场持续的捕食军备竞赛。从那时起，特别是在节肢动物中，捕食行为驱动了无数的眼睛适应性进化，提高了视觉性能。在这篇综述中，我们提供了不同节肢动物捕食者如何在视网膜的空间和时间分辨率等关键视觉特征方面实现改进的例子。然后，我们描述了该群体中的动物用于收集有关猎物的关键信息的形态、神经和行为策略，例如猎物的距离、速度和大小。我们还强调了头部和身体跟踪运动的重要性，以帮助对潜在猎物进行分类，并简要提及了正在进行的关于目标拦截所需的感觉运动转换的工作。
