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SUBMITTER: Sigl R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4967868 | biostudies-other | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Sigl Robert R Steibl Sebastian S Laforsch Christian C
Scientific reports 20160801
Coral reefs all over the Indo-Pacific suffer from substantial damage caused by the crown-of-thorns seastar Acanthaster planci, a voracious predator that moves on and between reefs to seek out its coral prey. Chemoreception is thought to guide A. planci. As vision was recently introduced as another sense involved in seastar navigation, we investigated the potential role of vision for navigation in A. planci. We estimated the spatial resolution and visual field of the compound eye using histologic ...[more]