Light detectors, photoreceptors, and imaging systems in nature
By: Jerome J. Wolken.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Photoreceptors.; Visual pigments.; Photobiology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Light and Life; label: 1
title: Light and Life: An Introduction
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: The Physical Nature of Light: The Interaction of Light with Matter and Molecules of Life
pagenum: 6; label: 3
title: Biochromes: Pigments and Photoreception
pagenum: 17; label: 4
title: The Cell Membrane: Molecular Structures
pagenum: 38; label: 5
title: Specialized Cellular Membranes for Photoreception: The Chloroplast in Photosynthesis
pagenum: 46; label: 6
title: Phototactic Behavior: Searching for Light
pagenum: 64; title: Nature's Way of Making Images from Light; label: 7
title: Emergence of an Imaging Eye
pagenum: 89; label: 8
title: Visual Pigments
pagenum: 101; label: 9
title: Vertebrate Eyes: Structure and Visual Excitation
pagenum: 111; label: 10
title: Bird and Fish Eyes
pagenum: 126; label: 11
title: Spectral Sensitivity and Color Vision
pagenum: 138; label: 12
title: Invertebrate Eyes: Variations in Structural Design for Vision
pagenum: 147; label: 13
title: Polarized Light in Nature: Detection by Animals
pagenum: 182; label: 14
title: Light That Controls Behavior: Extraocular Photoreception
pagenum: 191; label: 15
title: Bioengineering: Biomimetics
pagenum: 205; label: Appendix
title: Optics: How Images are Formed
pagenum: 218; label: References
pagenum: 229; label: Index
pagenum: 253