A new use for useless eyes in cave crustaceans

Crustaceana

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 593-600

  Mejía Ortíz, Luis M ^a   Hartnoll, Richard G ^b  

^a Universidad de Quintana Roo Cozumel   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CAVE SYSTEM; CRUSTACEAN; EYE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; MACROBRACHIUM; POTAMALPHEOPS; PROCAMBARUS;

EID: 33748941722     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854006777584313     Document Type: Article

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