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| Title |
Compound Eye Adaptations for Diurnal and Nocturnal Lifestyle in the Intertidal Ant, Polyrhachis sokolova
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, October 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0076015 |
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| Authors |
Ajay Narendra, Ali Alkaladi, Chloé A. Raderschall, Simon K. A. Robson, Willi A. Ribi |
| Abstract |
The Australian intertidal ant, Polyrhachis sokolova lives in mudflat habitats and nests at the base of mangroves. They are solitary foraging ants that rely on visual cues. The ants are active during low tides at both day and night and thus experience a wide range of light intensities. We here ask the extent to which the compound eyes of P. sokolova reflect the fact that they operate during both day and night. The ants have typical apposition compound eyes with 596 ommatidia per eye and an interommatidial angle of 6.0°. We find the ants have developed large lenses (33 µm in diameter) and wide rhabdoms (5 µm in diameter) to make their eyes highly sensitive to low light conditions. To be active at bright light conditions, the ants have developed an extreme pupillary mechanism during which the primary pigment cells constrict the crystalline cone to form a narrow tract of 0.5 µm wide and 16 µm long. This pupillary mechanism protects the photoreceptors from bright light, making the eyes less sensitive during the day. The dorsal rim area of their compound eye has specialised photoreceptors that could aid in detecting the orientation of the pattern of polarised skylight, which would assist the animals to determine compass directions required while navigating between nest and food sources. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Poland | 1 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 92 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 17% |
| Researcher | 15 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 12 | 13% |
| Unknown | 11 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 48 | 51% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 8% |
| Neuroscience | 7 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 10 | 11% |
| Unknown | 16 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 19 June 2020.
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#1,679,485
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#21,758
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#16,587
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#608
of 5,151 outputs
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