Beneath the Compound Eye: Neuroanatomical Analysis and Physiological Correlates in the Study of Insect Vision

Students of the compound eye deserve to be pleased with the scope and depth of their knowledge about the diversity of physiological optics and receptor structure. The same may be said for modern research on receptor transduction, the structure and kinetics of visual pigments, and the molecular biology of the photoreceptor membrane. Now, 100 years after Exner published his views on the compound eye, our understanding of the molecular and biophysical properties of the receptor layer is certainly comparable to knowledge of vertebrate photoreceptors.

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