Different retina-lamina projections in mosquitoes with fused and open rhabdoms

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 191, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 639-647

  Land, Michael F ^a   Horwood, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Lamina; Mosquito; Neural superposition; Toxorhynchites; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DARKNESS; HISTOLOGY; INTERNEURON; LIGHT; MOSQUITO; NERVE FIBER; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CULICIDAE; DARKNESS; INTERNEURONS; LIGHT; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; VISION;

EID: 23744502666     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-005-0616-x     Document Type: Article

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