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1. Colour vision and communication in aquatic environments

a. The mysterious function of the most abundant daytime photoreceptor: What do double cones do?

b. The world's most complex colour and polarisation vision system: Vision in stomatopods

c. What do box jellyfish see?

d. Neuroethology of colour and UV on the great barrier reef

e. Ontogenetic colour change in reef fishes

f. Visualisation of polarised light by cuttlefishes

g. The ability of black damselfish to distinguish fine detail

h. Vision in pelagic fishes

i. Adaptive colouration in the marine environment

j. Colour communication in cephalopods and fish

k. UV cues and mate choice in reef fish

l. Communication between cleaner fish and their hosts: the role of colour

m. The amazing colours of cichlid fish

n. Vision in ancestral vertebrates: the Australian lungfish

o. Vision in elasmobranchs

i. Development of vision and brains in elasmobranchs

ii. Colour vision in elasmobranchs

 

2. Vision and remote sensing: using nature's technology to examine the health of the great barrier reef and moreton bay

 

3. CoralWatch Coral Health Chart: using colour charts to monitor coral bleaching

 

4. Deep sea expeditions: what's down there?

a. Deep down under

b. Voyages with the Harbour Branch Ogeanographic Institution and NOAA Ocean Explorer: Operation Deep Scope

c. Deep sea submersible expedition to Australia and New Zealand prospectus

d. Evolution and anatomy of lateral lines in deep-sea fishes

 

5. Visual ecology of birds

a. Colour communication in parrots and birds of paradise

b. A comparative survey of retinal neurophysiology in relation to visual ecology in australian birds

 

6. First international conference on sensory processing of the aquatic environment

 

7. Underwater spectrophotometry

 

8. Aquarius missions

 


Last updated: October 2007 by Janine Bertler

Sensory Neurobiology Group

(formerly VTHRC)
School of Biomedical Sciences
University of Queensland
Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia