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A spitting image: specializations in archerfish eyes for vision at the interface between air and water

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, April 2010
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Title
A spitting image: specializations in archerfish eyes for vision at the interface between air and water
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, April 2010
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2010.0345
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Authors

Shelby Temple, Nathan S. Hart, N. Justin Marshall, Shaun P. Collin

Abstract

Archerfish are famous for spitting jets of water to capture terrestrial insects, a task that not only requires oral dexterity, but also the ability to detect small camouflaged prey against a visually complex background of overhanging foliage. Because detection of olfactory, auditory and tactile cues is diminished at air-water interfaces, archerfish must depend almost entirely on visual cues to mediate their sensory interactions with the aerial world. During spitting, their eyes remain below the water's surface and must adapt to the optical demands of both aquatic and aerial fields of view. These challenges suggest that archerfish eyes may be specially adapted to life at the interface between air and water. Using microspectrophotometry to characterize the spectral absorbance of photoreceptors, we find that archerfish have differentially tuned their rods and cones across their retina, correlated with spectral differences in aquatic and aerial fields of view. Spatial resolving power also differs for aquatic and aerial fields of view with maximum visual resolution (6.9 cycles per degree) aligned with their preferred spitting angle. These measurements provide insight into the functional significance of intraretinal variability in archerfish and infer intraretinal variability may be expected among surface fishes or vertebrates where different fields of view vary markedly.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 13 4%
United States 6 2%
United Kingdom 6 2%
Germany 3 <1%
Spain 3 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
Other 4 1%
Unknown 273 87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 71 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 61 19%
Student > Bachelor 38 12%
Student > Master 31 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 22 7%
Other 63 20%
Unknown 28 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 193 61%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 4%
Neuroscience 10 3%
Environmental Science 10 3%
Other 32 10%
Unknown 34 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 February 2021.
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#4,565
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#8,777
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Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
#33
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