Visual acuity in insects

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 42, Issue , 1997, Pages 147-177

  Land, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acute zone; eye; interommatidial angle; optics; vision

Indexed keywords

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); APTERYGOTA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0030935364     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.42.1.147     Document Type: Review

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