Sentences with phrase «of eyespots»

The eye sockets make me think of the eyespots on a killer whale.

Recent work also shows that some plants, such as the cabbage and mustard relative Arabidopsis, make proteins that are involved in the development and functioning of eyespots — the ultrabasic eyes found in some single - celled organisms such as green algae.

In 2014 biologist Sebastiano De Bona of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and his colleagues concluded that eye mimicry — rather than the conspicuousness of an eyespot — was responsible for averting predators.

Not exact matches

In addition to its fake eyespots, it can inflate a large pair of bright red, stinking horns that look like snakes» tongues and smell like snake musk.

The 10 - micrometer - wide microbe has a small eyespot, which Deisseroth describes as «kind of cute,» that spins around to detect light.

It's also possible that the eyespots act as decoys that cause hunters to attack the outer wing instead of the more vulnerable body.

The owl butterfly is so named because of the enormous eyespots that dominate its lower wings.

Moths chase single molecules of seemingly scentless pheromones, and a male satyrid butterfly woos with the invisible (to us) ultraviolet on his eyespot.

It's the first well - documented example of an organism using body shape to confuse predators that use echolocation, the researchers say — the equivalent of fish and insects that display giant eyespots for visual trickery.

Some of these butterfly pictures featured natural - looking eyespots, others had none, and a third group showed digitally manipulated spots that had the same color contrast as real spots but looked less like eyes.

Larger eyespots tend to look like the eyes of a predator's enemy, which suggests they serve to intimidate potential attackers.

The birds produced equivalent aversive responses to mimetic eyespots and to the true eyes of owls.

Known as Chlamy to researchers, this alga's combination of traits — it has a cell wall and chloroplasts, but also an eyespot and pair of flagella, and switches between sunlight and carbon for food — has made it a popular study subject for decades.

Figure 3: Formation of a butterfly eyespot (top) is foreshadowed by concentric rings of gene expression at the chrysalis stage (bottom).

Living in the pitch dark blackness of the sea, why did they need eyespots?

It's quite likely that scientists would not have discovered this glow without being curious about the shrimp's eyespots, and thus, another fascinating area of research was born.

-LSB-...][A] rare visitor, a splendid, pale - yellow creature with black blotches, blue crenels, and a cinnabar eyespot above each chrome - rimmed black tail -LSB-...] kept restlessly jerking its great wings, and my desire for it was one of the most intense I have ever experienced.

Playing muse to every teacher who warned of eyes in the back of their head, the stinging saddleback caterpillar (Acharia stimulea) has strategically placed eyespots on it backside.