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Temporal resolution in mesopelagic crustaceans

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Date Issued:
2000
Title: Temporal resolution in mesopelagic crustaceans.
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Name(s): Frank, Tamara M.
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Date Issued: 2000
Publisher: The Royal Society.
Place of Publication: London, UK
Physical Form: pdf
Extent: 5 p.
Language(s): English
Identifier: FA00007155 (IID), 10.1098/rstb.2000.0666 (doi)
Note(s): Mesopelagic crustaceans occupy a dim-light environment that is similar to that of nocturnal insects. In a light-limited environment, the requirement for greater sensitivity may result in slower photoreceptor transduction and increased summation time. This should be reflected by a lower temporal resolution, as indicated by a lower critical flicker fusion frequency (CFF). Therefore, one would predict that the CFFs of mesopelagic organisms would be relatively low compared with those of their shallow-water relatives, just as nocturnal insects tend to have lower CFFs than diurnal insects.
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 1341
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Frank, T. M. (2000). Temporal resolution in mesopelagic crustaceans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 355(1401), 1195-1198. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0666
Subject(s): Crustaceans
Vision
Deep-sea animals
Flicker fusion
Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2000.0666
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007155
Host Institution: FAU