The eye of the freshwater prosobranch gastropod Viviparus viviparus: Ultrastructure, electrophysiology and behaviour

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-24

  Zhukov, Valery V ^c   Borissenko, Serguei L ^c   Zieger, Marina V ^a,b   Vakoliuk, Irina A ^c   Meyer Rochow, Victor B ^a,b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c IMMANUEL KANT BALTIC FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Electroretinogram (ERG); Mollusca; Photoreceptor; Phototaxis

Indexed keywords

EYE; GASTROPOD; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; VIVIPARUS VIVIPARUS;

EID: 33645120679     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: 14636395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2006.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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