The Visual System of Fish (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)

A question often asked of those of us who work in the seemingly esoteric field of fish vision is, why? To some of us the answer seems obvious - how many other visual scientists get to dive in a tropical lagoon in the name of science and then are able to eat their subjects for dinner? However, there are better, or at least scientifically more acceptable, reasons for working on the visual system of fish. First, in terms of numbers, fish are by far the most important of all vertebrate classes, probably accounting for over half (c. 22 000 species) of all recognized vertebrate species (Nelson, 1984). Furthermore, many of these are of commercial importance. Secondly, if one of the research aims is to understand the human visual system, animals such as fish can tell us a great deal, since in many ways their visual systems, and specifically their eyes, are similar to our own. This is fortunate, since there are several techniques, such as intracellular retinal recording, which are vital to our understanding of the visual process, that cannot be performed routinely on primates. The cold blooded fish, on the other hand, is an ideal subject for such studies and much of what we know about, for example, the fundamentals of information processing in the retina is based on work carried out on fish (e. g. Svaetichin, 1953).

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	1990
Authors:	Ron Douglas • Mustafa Djamgoz
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	526
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
ISBN-13:	978-9401066723
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Vertebrates > Fishes (ichthyology) Promotions
LSN:	9401066728
Barcode:	9789401066723

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