Physiological and morphological identification of photosensitive neurons in the opisthosomal ganglia of Limulus polyphemus

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 209-216

  Mori, Kazuo ^a,b   Saito, Takehiko ^a   Kuramoto, Taketeru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY;

LIMULIDAE; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA; POLYPHEMUS;

EID: 11144243347     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543209     Document Type: Article

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