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Barlow HB (1961) Possible principles underlying the transformation of sensory
messages. In: Rosenblith WA (ed) Sensory Communication. MIT Press,
Cambridge, Mass., pp 217-234
Bell CC, Hopkins CD, Grant K (1993) Contributions of electrosensory systems to
neurobiology and neuroethology - Proceedings of a conference in honor of the
scientific career ofThomas Szabo. 1 Comp Physiol A 173: 657-763
Blest AD, Land MF ( 1977) The physiological optics of Dinopis subrufus L.
Koch: a fish-lens in a spider. Proc R Soc Lond B 196: 197-222
Block BA (1986) Structure of the brain and eye heater tissue in marlins, sailfish,
and spearfishes. 1 Morpho1190: 169-189
Brooke MD, Hanley S, Laughlin SB (1999) The scaling of eye size with body
mass in birds. Proc R Soc Lond B 266:405-412
Burton B, Tatler B, Laughlin SB (2000) Photoreceptor response dynamics vary
with retinal position. Neuron (submitted)
Darwin C (1859) The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Murray,
London
de Ruyter van Steveninck RR, Laughlin SB ( 1996) The rate of informationtransfer at graded-potential synapses. Nature 379: 642-645
Garland T, Carter PA (1994) Evolutionary physiology. Ann Rev Physiol 56: 579621
Heinrich B (1993) The Hot-Blooded Insects. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg,
New York
Hornstein EP, O'Carroll DC, Anderson 1C, Laughlin SB (2000) Sexual
dimorphism matches photoreceptor performance to behavioral requirements.
Proc R Soc BLond B (submitted)
Hughes A (I 977) The topography of vision in mammals of contrasting life style:
comparative optics and retinal organisation. In: Crescitelli F (ed) Handbook of
Sensory Physiology, Vol. VII/5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, pp
613-756
Kirschfeld K (1976) The resolution of lens and compound eyes. In: Zettler F,
Weiler R (eds) Neural Principles in Vision. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New
York, pp 354-370
Land MF (1981) Optics and vision in invertebrates. In: A utrum H ( ed)
Comparative Physiology and Evolution of Vision in Invertebrates. B:
Invertebrate Visual Centers and Behaviour I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New
York, pp 471-592
Land MF (1997) Visual acuity in insects. Annual Rev ofEntomol42: 147-177
Laughlin SB (1981) A simple coding procedure enhances a neuron's information
capacity. Z Naturforsch 36c: 910-912
Laughlin SB (1983) Matching coding to scenes to enhance efficiency. In:
Braddick OJ, Sleigh AC (eds) Physical and Biological Processing of Images.
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, NewYork, pp 42-52