Polarization vision in terrestrial hermit crabs.
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol
; 209(6): 899-905, 2023 11.
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Polarization vision is used by a wide range of animals for navigating, orienting, and detecting objects or areas of interest. Shallow marine and semi-terrestrial crustaceans are particularly well known for their abilities to detect predator-like or conspecific-like objects based on their polarization properties. On land, some terrestrial invertebrates use polarization vision for detecting suitable habitats, oviposition sites or conspecifics, but examples of threat detection in the polarization domain are less well known. To test whether this also applies to crustaceans that have evolved to occupy terrestrial habitats, we determined the sensitivity of two species of land and one species of marine hermit crab to predator-like visual stimuli varying in the degree of polarization. All three species showed an ability to detect these cues based on polarization contrasts alone. One terrestrial species, Coenobita rugosus, showed an increased sensitivity to objects with a higher degree of polarization than the background. This is the inverse of most animals studied to date, suggesting that the ecological drivers for polarization vision may be different in the terrestrial environment.
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MEDLINE
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Anomuros
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Animals
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En
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J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol
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CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO
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NEUROLOGIA
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2023
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Article
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Alemania