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A Natural Programmable Metamaterial Controls 3D Curvature of Compound Eyes

2025-11-27

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The panoramic vision of the convex compound eyes, common to insects and crustaceans, relies on micrometer-scale curvature variations 1 . These variations create specialized visual zones adapted to specific tasks, including detecting prey, mates, or predators 2,3 . However, the mechanisms by which such fine-scale curvature is encoded during development remain unknown. Here we show that the developing eye of Dros...

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Literature Corpus work: f742a4e2-587a-5689-985e-8e9f70b3590d
DOI: 10.1101/2025.11.25.689431

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