Tooled for the Task: Vision in the Opossum

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 189-194

  Volchan, Eliane ^a   Vargas, Claudia Domingues ^a   Da Franca, João Guedes ^a   Pereira Jr , Antonio ^b   Da Rocha Miranda, Carlos Eduardo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Binocularity; Brain; Opossum; Optokinetic reflex; Vision

Indexed keywords

DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542288165     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0189:TFTTVI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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