Electroretinographic measures of vision in horseshoe crabs with uniform versus variegated carapaces

NeuroSignals

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 247-262

  Wasserman, Gerald S ^a   Cheng, Zixi ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Carapace; Electroretinogram; Evolution; Horseshoe crab; Lateral compound eye; Limulus polyphemus; Mating; Retina; Sensory coding; Vision

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COMPOUND EYE; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EVOLUTION; LATENT PERIOD; LIMULUS; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; VISION;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HORSESHOE CRABS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VARIATION (GENETICS); VISION;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA; POLYPHEMUS; THORACICA;

EID: 0029804462     PISSN: 1424862X     EISSN: 14248638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109198     Document Type: Article

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