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    Biological Sunscreens Tune Polychromatic Ultraviolet Vision in Mantis Shrimp

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    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.071
    http://hdl.handle.net/11603/13405
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    Author/Creator
    Bok, Michael J.
    Porter, Megan L.
    Place, Allen R.
    Cronin, Thomas W.
    Date
    2014-07-03
    Type of Work
    7 pages
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    journal articles
    Citation of Original Publication
    Michael J. Bok, et.al, Biological Sunscreens Tune Polychromatic Ultraviolet Vision in Mantis Shrimp, Current Biology, Volume 24, Issue 14, 21 July 2014, Pages 1636-1642, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.071
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    Stomatopod crustaceans
    mantis shrimp
    photoreceptors
    Neogonodactylus oerstedii
    mycosporine-like amino acid (MAA)
    Abstract
    Stomatopod crustaceans, or mantis shrimp, are renowned for their complex visual systems. Their array of 16 types of photoreceptors provides complex color reception, as well as linear and circular polarization sensitivity. The least-understood components of their retina are the UV receptors, of which there are up to six distinct, narrowly tuned spectral types . Here we show that in the stomatopod species Neogonodactylus oerstedii, this set of receptors is based on only two visual pigments. Surprisingly, five of the six UV receptor types contain the same visual pigment. The various UV receptors are spectrally tuned by a novel set of four short- and long-pass UV-specific optical filters in the overlying crystalline cones. These filters are composed of various mycosporine-like amino acid (MAA) pigments. Commonly referred to as “nature’s sunscreens,” MAAs are usually employed for UV photoprotection , but mantis shrimp uniquely incorporate them into powerful spectral tuning filters, extending and diversifying their preeminently elaborate photoreceptive arsenal.


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    Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
    University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    1000 Hilltop Circle
    Baltimore, MD 21250
    www.umbc.edu/scholarworks

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    Phone: 410-455-3544


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