Large retinal ganglion cells that form independent, regular mosaics in the ranid frogs Rana esculenta and Rana pipiens

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1109-1127

  Shamim, K M ^a,b   Scalia, F ^c   Toth P ^d   Cook, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIB MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^c Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Classification; Dendritic tree; Homology; Natural type; Tessellation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031278551     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0952523800011810     Document Type: Article

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