Visual optics: The sandlance eye breaks all the rules

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1999, Pages

  Land, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0033594468     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80180-8     Document Type: Note

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