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During the course of evolution, animals have adapted to the particular demands of their local environments in ways that increased their chances of survival and reproduction. This is also true of diverse aspects of the sensory systems that enable species to perceive their surroundings. In the case of the visual system, these adaptations have shaped features such as the positioning of the eyes and the relative acuity of different regions of the retina.<\/p>\n


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However, knowledge of the functional evolution of visual systems in mammals has remained relatively sparse. “In the past 10 or 15 years, the mouse has become the favored model for the investigation of the processing of visual information,” says Professor Laura Busse of the Department of Biology II at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich. “That’s a somewhat surprising development, given that it was previously thought that these rodents primarily sensed the world using their whisker system and smell.” However, color vision in mammals is known to have an effect on the ability to find food, evade predators, and choose mating partners.<\/p>\n

“It occurred to us that we don’t really know how mice perceive their natural environment visually,” says Busse, who is a member of the transregional Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1233 on ‘Robust Vision’. Here, the term “robust” refers the fact that animals (including humans) are able to draw inferences from limited amounts of visual information, even in environments that are constantly changing. Busse decided to close this gap by studying the visual input and the processing of neuronal signals in mice,” In collaboration with Professor Thomas Euler of T\u00fcbingen University, the Coordinating University of the CRC.<\/p>\n


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