Honeybee vision: Analysis of orientation and colour in the lateral, dorsal and ventral fields of view

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1271-1280

  Giger, A D ^a   Srinivasan, M V ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Institute for Advanced Study Berlin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; colour vision; honeybee; learning; orientation; pattern recognition; vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030927483     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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