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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:13.8px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant:small-caps">Vision Research Special issue on Animal Vision: Optics, Movement and Ecology<span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Darwin was pleased to cite Helmholtz’s observation that ‘that if an optician had sold him an instrument so carelessly made [as the human eye], he would have thought himself fully justified in returning it ’. We are now delighted to invite contributions to an issue of Vision Research on ‘Animal Vision: Optics, Movement and Ecology’, on the imperfections and adaptations, benefits and costs of eyes and visual systems across the animal kingdom, in its remarkable, illuminating diversity. Mike Land has agreed to write an Introduction to this special issue, and we especially encourage all those who have enjoyed and been inspired by his work to contribute.</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Submissions should be on primary research, but we hope they will be written to appeal to the wide readership of<span> </span><i>Vision Research</i> by placing the findings in a broad evolutionary and functional setting. We are also happy to consider proposals for reviews. The Journal Portal opens on July 1<sup>st</sup>, and the deadline for submissions is 1st October 2018, with a view to publication in May 2019.</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Manuscripts will be refereed in the normal way, with oversight from the Editors.<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Please contact one of us with any questions, or presubmission enquires.<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Proposals for reviews should be made in the first instance to Daniel Osorio (<a href="mailto:d.osorio@sussex.ac.uk">d.osorio@sussex.ac.uk</a></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:13.8px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:13.8px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tom Cronin, Justin Marshall, Dan Nilsson, Daniel Osorio<span></span></span></i></p><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">From Daniel Osorio</div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">School of Life Sciences<br>University of Sussex<br>Brighton. BN1 9QG.</div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
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