Morphology of P and M retinal ganglion cells of the bush baby

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 3345-3352

  Yamada, Elizabeth S ^a,b   Marshak, David W ^a   Silveira, Luiz Carlos L ^b   Casagrande, Vivien A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Color opponency; Color vision; Evolution; Primates; Visual pathways

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTHROPOIDEA; COLOR VISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIPOPHILICITY; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AOTUS TRIVIRGATUS; BIOMETRY; CALLITHRIX; CEBUS; CONES (RETINA); DENDRITES; GALAGO; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0031694775     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00412-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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