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Curr Biol 2020 Jan 20;302:R71-R73. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.002.
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Visual Ecology: Now You See, Now You Don''t.

Chappell DR , Speiser DI .


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During the day, the brittle star Ophiocoma wendtii demonstrates spatial vision due to a distributed network of extraocular photoreceptors whose fields of view are restricted by chromatophores. At night, these chromatophores contract and O. wendtii loses spatial vision.

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