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Polarized Light Responses from Crab Retinula Cells

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LIKE many other arthropods, crabs can orientate themselves to plane polarized light1, and it has been shown that single retinula cells of the fly can respond differentially to the plane of polarization2–4.

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SHAW, S. Polarized Light Responses from Crab Retinula Cells. Nature 211, 92–93 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211092a0

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