Dendritic structure and receptive-field organization of optic flow processing interneurons in the fly

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1902-1917

  Krapp, Holger G ^a,b   Hengstenberg, Bärbel ^a   Hengstenberg, Roland ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Institute for Advanced Study Berlin   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLY; HISTOLOGY; INTERNEURON; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0031918219     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.79.4.1902     Document Type: Article

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