This Monday, the paper that describes our discovery of spectral filters in jumping spider eyes came out in Current Biology. Here is the link to a free pdf reprint of the original paper:
http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1R2hB3QW8RZurU
The story got picked up by a large number of press outlets, here are writeups by National Geographic, Science, and the LA Times:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150518-jumping-spider-color-vision-mating-animals-science/
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/05/video-if-you-re-spider-you-want-be-able-see
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-jumping-spider-color-vision-20150518-story.html
and some more in German, in Der Spiegel and Neue Zürcher Zeitung:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/springspinnen-sehen-gestochen-scharf-und-das-in-farbe-a-1034412.html
http://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/biologie/ein-koerpereigener-spektralfilter-zur-erweiterung-des-farbspektrums-1.18545468
http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1R2hB3QW8RZurU
The story got picked up by a large number of press outlets, here are writeups by National Geographic, Science, and the LA Times:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150518-jumping-spider-color-vision-mating-animals-science/
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/05/video-if-you-re-spider-you-want-be-able-see
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-jumping-spider-color-vision-20150518-story.html
and some more in German, in Der Spiegel and Neue Zürcher Zeitung:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/springspinnen-sehen-gestochen-scharf-und-das-in-farbe-a-1034412.html
http://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/biologie/ein-koerpereigener-spektralfilter-zur-erweiterung-des-farbspektrums-1.18545468
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