Justin Marshall (neuroscientist)

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Professor Justin Marshall
Professor Justin Marshall

Nicholas Justin Marshall FAA (born 1962) is a British-Australian neuroscientist-ecologist whose research focuses on decoding how animals use colour to communicate. He is known for discovering the most complex animal visual system known of any organism.[1] – that of the mantis shrimp, which has 12 colour channels.

  1. ^ Justin Marshall & Johannes Oberwinkler (1999). "Ultraviolet vision: the colourful world of the mantis shrimp". Nature. 401 (6756): 873–874. Bibcode:1999Natur.401..873M. doi:10.1038/44751. PMID 10553902. S2CID 4360184.