Relationships between pupil working range and habitat luminance in flies and butterflies

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-9

  Jaremo Jonson A C ^a   Land, M F ^b   Osorio, D C ^b   Nilsson, D E ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Compound eye; Fly; Pupil; Visual ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009878549     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050152     Document Type: Article

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