Functionally and anatomically segregated visual pathways in the lobula complex of a calliphorid fly

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 396, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 84-104

  Douglass, John K ^a   Strausfeld, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Insect visual system; Parallel visual pathways; Phaenicia sericata; Small receptive field efferents

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FLY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA Y CELL; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIPTERA; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0032557810     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980622)396:1<84::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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