Light detectors, photoreceptors, and imaging systems in nature / Jerome J. Wolken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolken, Jerome J. (Jerome Jay), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual pigments.

Photoreceptors.

Photobiology.

Light--Physiological effect.

Light.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comparative survey of how animals detect light and image in their world includes discussions of photoreceptors, light emitters and optics. It focuses on the evolution of different types of optical systems, describing how these systems have developed into more complex designs.

Contents:

Contents; Light and Life; 1. Light and Life: An Introduction; 2. The Physical Nature of Light: The Interaction of Light with Matter and Molecules of Life; 3. Biochromes: Pigments and Photoreception; 4. The Cell Membrane: Molecular Structure; 5. Specialized Cellular Membranes for Photoreception: The Chloroplast in Photosynthesis; 6. Phototactic Behavior: Searching for Light; Nature's Ways of Making Images from Light; 7. Emergence of an Imaging Eye; 8. Visual Pigments; 9. Vertebrate Eyes: Structure and Visual Excitation; 10. Bird and Fish Eyes; 11. Spectral Sensitivity and Color Vision

12. Invertebrate Eyes: Variations in Structural Design for Vision13. Polarized Light in Nature: Detection by Animals; 14. Light That Controls Behavior: Extraocular Photoreception; 15. Bioengineering: Biomimeties; Appendix. Optics: How Images Are Formed; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-251) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770149-3

1-280-44006-6

9786610440061

1-4294-0632-1

0-19-802170-4

1-60129-665-7

OCLC:

666958089