A Multiple-Purpose Photoreceptor – the eye of the pond snail

Seeing through the pond snail’s eye

In this time and age of global information flow, internet and machine translations, it is unthinkable that a discovery no matter where and in which language published, even if it were Basque, Haussa, or Aymara, would remain unnoticed as had happened in the 19th century with Mendel’s epoch-making laws of inheritance.