Calcitic microlenses as part of the photoreceptor system in brittlestars

Nature

Volumn 412, Issue 6849, 2001, Pages 819-822

  Aizenberg, Joanna ^a   Tkachenko, Alexei ^a   Weiner, Steve ^b   Addadi, Lia ^b   Hendler, Gordon ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TISSUE;

PHOTORECEPTOR;

MICROLENSES;

BIOMATERIAL; CALCIUM CARBONATE;

CALCITE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ECHINODERM; EYE; ILLUMINATION; LENS; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKELETON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; ECHINODERMATA; LIGHT; OPTICS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; SENSE ORGANS;

ECHINODERMATA; OPHIOCOMA; OPHIUROIDEA;

EID: 0035939952     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35090573     Document Type: Article

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