Spectral heterogeneity of honeybee ommatidia

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 464-467

  Wakakuwa, Motohiro ^a   Kurasawa, Masumi ^a   Giurfa, Martin ^b   Arikawa, Kentaro ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE; HONEYBEE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CELL HETEROGENEITY; HONEYBEE; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BEES; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RETINAL PIGMENTS;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 28344442224     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-005-0018-5     Document Type: Article

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