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Evolutionary biology

Fly eyes get the whole picture

The compound eyes of ancestral flies picked up only one picture point in each facet. The evolution of a means to split up the light-sensitive cells increased this number to seven, boosting the eye's resolution greatly.

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Figure 1: How fly eyes differ from those of other arthropods.

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Moses, K. Fly eyes get the whole picture. Nature 443, 638–639 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05209

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