An exceptionally well-preserved Eocene dolichopodid fly eye: function and evolutionary significance
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An exceptionally well-preserved Eocene dolichopodid fly eye: function and evolutionary significance.
The exceptionally preserved eyes of an Eocene dolichopodid fly contained in Baltic amber show remarkable detail, including features at micrometre and submicrometre levels. Based on this material, we establish that it is likely that the neural superposition compound eye existed as far back as 45 Ma. The ommatidia have an open rhabdom with a trapezoidal arrangement of seven rhabdomeres. Such a st...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1467