{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["51(4)"],"submitter":["Berry S"],"pubmed_abstract":["To work effectively, the eyes of nocturnal insects have a problem they must overcome. During the night, the light levels are low, so their eyes need to be very sensitive; but they also need a way of adapting to environmental light conditions, and protecting those sensitive organs, if a bright light is encountered. Human eyes have a pupil that changes size to regulate light input to the eye. Moths (Lepidoptera) use a light absorbing pigment that moves position to limit the light within the eye. This pigment migration is difficult to record because it is a dynamic process and will only occur in a live moth. This paper presents the first use of Ocular Coherence Tomography as a method of viewing anatomical detail in a compound eye. This is noninvasive and does not harm the insect. To demonstra"],"journal":["Environmental entomology"],"pagination":["643-648"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9389422"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["The Use of Optical Coherence Tomography to Demonstrate Dark and Light Adaptation in a Live Moth."],"pmcid":["PMC9389422"],"pubmed_authors":["Berry S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The Use of Optical Coherence Tomography to Demonstrate Dark and Light Adaptation in a Live Moth.","description":"To work effectively, the eyes of nocturnal insects have a problem they must overcome. During the night, the light levels are low, so their eyes need to be very sensitive; but they also need a way of adapting to environmental light conditions, and protecting those sensitive organs, if a bright light is encountered. Human eyes have a pupil that changes size to regulate light input to the eye. Moths (Lepidoptera) use a light absorbing pigment that moves position to limit the light within the eye. This pigment migration is difficult to record because it is a dynamic process and will only occur in a live moth. This paper presents the first use of Ocular Coherence Tomography as a method of viewing anatomical detail in a compound eye. This is noninvasive and does not harm the insect. To demonstra","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Aug","modification":"2025-04-22T10:58:07.661Z","creation":"2024-11-12T14:14:15.395Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9389422","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35762335"],"doi":["10.1093/ee/nvac044"]}}