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Book SynopsisPart I: Polarization Sensitivity and Vision.- Polarization Sensitivity in the Vinegar Fly, Drosophila melanogaster.- Polarization Sensitivity in Bees (Apoidea).- Polarization Vision and Orientation in Ball-rolling Dung Beetles.- Polarization Sensitivity in Desert Locusts, Schistocerca gregaria.- Polarization Sensitivity in Butterflies.- Polarization Sensitivity in Tabanid Flies.- Horsefly Polarotaxis.- Circular Polarization Insensitivity in Scarab Beetles with Circularly Polarizing Exocuticle.- Polarization Sensitivity and Polarotaxis in Springtails (Collembola).- Polarization Sensitivity, Polarotaxis and Polarization-elicited Optomotor Response in Yellow Fever Mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti).- Polarotaxis in Mayflies.- Polarization Sensitivity and Polarotaxis in Odonates (Dragonflies and Damselflies).- Polarization Vision of Crustaceans.- Polarization Sensitivity in Cephalopods - Cuttlefish as Model Animals.- Polarization Sensitivity in Fishes.- Polarization Sensitivity in Amphibians: An Update.- Polarization Sensitivity in Reptiles: An Update.- Polarization Vision in Birds.- Polarization Sensitivity and Insensitivity in Bats.- Polarization Insensitivity in Harbour Seals (Phoca vitulina).- Human Polarization Sensitivity: An Update.- Vision of Trilobites and Polarized Light.- Part II: Environmental Polarization with Implications to Polarization Sensitivity and Vision.- Polarization Signals in Crustaceans and Insects.- Reflection-polarization Characteristics of Water Surfaces.- Polarized Light Pollution and Ecological/Evolutionary Traps Induced by It for Polarotactic Aquatic Insects.- Part III: Celestial Viking Navigation.- Sky-polarimetric Viking Navigation: An Extended Update.- Part IV: Astronomical Polarization.- Polarization of Sunlit and Moonlit Skies, Eclipse Skies, Solar Coronas and Kordylewski Dust Clouds.- Astronomical Polarization, Polarization-sensitive Cameras and Telescopes.
