A neural network to improve dim-light vision? Dendritic fields of first-order interneurons in the nocturnal bee Megalopta genalis

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 322, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 313-320

  Greiner, Birgit ^a   Ribi, Willi A ^b   Warrant, Eric J ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b University of Human Sciences of the Principality of Liechtenstein   (Liechtenstein)

Author keywords

Apposition compound eye; First optic ganglion; Nocturnal bee, Megalopta genalis (Insecta); Spatial summation; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BEE; CILIARY GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HONEYBEE; INSECT; INTERNEURON; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEES; DARKNESS; DENDRITES; FEMALE; INTERNEURONS; LIGHT; NERVE NET; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; VISION; VISUAL FIELDS;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MEGALOPTA GENALIS;

EID: 27944497443     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-005-0034-y     Document Type: Article

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