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A Preliminary Report on the Analysis of the Optomotor System of the Bee — Behavioral Studies with Spectral Lights

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Information Processing in the Visual Systems of Anthropods

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The results described here indicate that colour differences play no role within the “Funktionskreis” of the bee’s optomotor system. It is thus also likely that flesh flies are not colour-blind. If it really is possible to demonstrate that only one receptor type is involved in the optomotor system of the bee, then the lack of colour-specific reactions is easily explained. The results obtained up till now strongly support this idea.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Institute of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany

    W. Kaiser & E. Liske

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  1. Zoologisches Institut der Universität Zürich, CH-8006, Zürich, Künstlergasse 16, Switzerland

    Rüdiger Wehner

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Kaiser, W., Liske, E. (1972). A Preliminary Report on the Analysis of the Optomotor System of the Bee — Behavioral Studies with Spectral Lights. In: Wehner, R. (eds) Information Processing in the Visual Systems of Anthropods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65477-0_23

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