Morphology and Morphometry of the Putative Extraretinal Photoreceptors of the Oriental Hornet

Physiological Chemistry and Physics and Medical NMR

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-64

  Reichel Kvital, Elena ^a   Ishay, Jacob S ^a   Kalicharan, Dharamdajal ^b   Jongebloed, Willem L ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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