Main description:

This volume explores the diversity of distributed eyes and other unusual visual systems in nature. It compares the unique themes of optics, neural processing, and behavioral control that emerge from these visual systems with more-canonical eyes. This volume attempts to answer a number of questions about distributed visual systems. What are distributed visual systems good for, how do they function, and why have they arisen independently in so many phyla? Why are eye designs and visual system arrangements much more diverse in invertebrates? Each chapter includes an overview of the visual systems that exist in their group of animals, relates vision to ecology, and takes a comparative approach.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introductory overview regarding trade-offs of different optical layouts. This will include parallels between fan worms and stemmata of insects for examples, Cnidarians - Elke Buschbeck & Michael Bok

Chapter 2: Diversity and evolution of jellyfish visual systems, Mollusks - Natasha Picciani, Todd Oakley & David Plachetzki

Chapter 3: Scallops distributed eyes - Dan Speiser

Chapter 4: Chiton dispersed visual systems, Annelids - Alex Nahm-Kingston

Chapter 5: Errant polychaetes Arthropods - Kristin Tessmar-Raibl & Vinoth Rajan

Chapter 6: Spider eyes - Nate Morehouse

Chapter 7: Myriapod eyes - John Kirwan

Chapter 8: Insect ocelli - Emily Baird

Chapter 9: Batflies, Copepods or larval stomatopods - Megan Porter

Chapter 10: Hyperiid amphipods, Echinoderms - Chan Lin & Karen Osborn

Chapter 11: Brittle star vision - Lauren Sumner-Rooney

Chapter 12: Starfish vision - Anders Garm