Built-in polarizers form part of a compass organ in spiders

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6752, 1999, Pages 470-473

  Dacke, M ^a   Nilsson, D E ^a   Warrant, E J ^a   Blest, A D ^b,c   Land, M F ^d   O'Caroll, D C ^e  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NAVIGATION AID; POLARIZATION; SPIDER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EYE; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SPIDER; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; DRASSODES; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033619241     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46773     Document Type: Article

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