Almut Kelber
@almut_kelber
Biologist, fascinated by eyes and vision
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22-01-2016 10:18:08
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Our new paper on ocular transmittance of the corneae and lenses of bird eyes is out: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-lo… Peter Olsson Lund Vision Group @Biology_LU with many new species andphylogenetic analyses
and another new paper doi.org/10.1007/s00359… on the admirable speckled wood butterfly males that perch in sunspots and watch out for females. We describe how they position themselves in the sunspot, and what they see with their compound eyes. Lund Vision Group @Biology_LU
Our study about the spatial resolution and sensitivity of the stingless bee, Tetragonula iridipennis, is online now in Journal of Comparitive Physiology A (rdcu.be/cAP8N) Springer Nature Lund Vision Group Almut Kelber Hema Somanathan CSIR, India IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Friends of the colourful world, check the colour count-down of the British Ecological Society here: britishecologicalsociety.org/colour-countdo… and here is a short contribution on birds: methodsblog.com/2021/12/06/how… Have fun! Lund Vision Group @Biology_LU
Did you ever wonder what flying foxes do during a lunar eclipse? Baheerathan Murugavel from IISER Thiruvananthapuram took the chance to find out: DOI: 10.14709/BarbJ.14.1.2021.14 in Journal of Bat Research & Conservation Lund Vision Group
Ever wondered what amacrine cells do for colour processing? The answer may surprise you! Find out more in our new @bioRxiv with Xinwei Wang Paul A Roberts Takeshi Yoshimatsu @Neonsynapse biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
How can dung beetles find their way home without landmarks? HFSP Program Grant holder Poramate Manoonpong Uni Southern Denmark and colleagues used bio-inspired #robotics to investigate the mechanisms underlying complex #dungbeetle navigation > bit.ly/3KQTyqN
HFSP research grant team Marianne Elias @ISYEB_UMR, Serge Berthier @insp_umr7588 and Nipam Patel UC Berkeley and colleagues studied the optical properties of transparency in #butterfly wings shedding light on how transparency is perceived by predators bit.ly/3uwFJYJ
Achromatic cues may be more important for flower visibility to hawkmoths and other insects than often assume, see our new paper with Casper van der Kooi: doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2… featuring hawkmoths, flower colours and a literature review Lund Vision Group
Please note the link below to a report by the Inter Academy Partnership (IAP) on predatory journals: interacademies.org/project/predat… Lund Vision Group @Biology_LU It is published 7 languages but not in Swedish....
If you want to contribute to a new Special Issue for Vision Research on the exciting topic “Seeing Colors in Nature” edited by K. Cheney, D. Foster, A. Kelber, H. Komatsu and S. Nascimento, please find the details here: sciencedirect.com/journal/vision… Lund Vision Group
Our theme issue of Phil Trans R Soc on Arthropod Colour Vision is now online, and here is the introductory essay with Ayse Yilmaz and Natalie Hempel-de Ibarra: royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/92WV4EX… Lund Vision Group @Biology_LU
Our gps-study on Indian flying foxes, with Bahee and Hema is finally out, check here: Home ranges, directionality and the influence of moon phases on the movement ecology of Indian flying fox males in southern India journals.biologists.com/bio/article-ab… Lund Vision Group
check this out: a Biological Communication Workshop for early Career scientists, organized by the Company of Biologists and JEB forms.gle/a4AqZbWo3gKiX6… Lund Vision Group @Biology_LU
