Surprising solution to fly eye mystery

Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

Fly eyes have the fastest visual responses in the animal kingdom, but how they achieve this has long been an enigma. A new study shows that their rapid vision may be a result of their photoreceptors - specialized cells found in the retina - physically contracting in response to light.

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