Visual discrimination: Seeing the third quality of light

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 14, 1999, Pages

  Nilsson, Dan E ^a   Warrant, Eric J ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; CRUSTACEA; MOLLUSCA; STOMATOPODA;

EID: 0033565455     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80330-3     Document Type: Note

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