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Light detectors, photoreceptors, and imaging systems in nature
- Title
- Light detectors, photoreceptors, and imaging systems in nature / Jerome J. Wolken.
- Author
- Wolken, Jerome J. (Jerome Jay), 1917-1999.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QP481 .W58 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 259 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-251) and index.
- Contents
- 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 -- 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 Vision -- 13. Polarized Light in Nature: Detection by Animals -- 14. Light That Controls Behavior: Extraocular Photoreception -- 15. Bioengineering: Biomimetics -- Appendix. Optics: How Images Are Formed.
- ISBN
- 0195050029
- LCCN
- 94014160
- OCLC
- 30076636
- ocm30076636
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries