Organization of local interneurons in optic glomeruli of the dipterous visual system and comparisons with the antennal lobes

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1267-1288

  Strausfeld, Nicholas J ^a   Sinakevitch, Irina ^b   Okamura, Jun Ya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glomerular organization; Insect; Local interneurons; Multimodal convergence; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; DENDRITE; FLY; GANGLION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MESENCEPHALON; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE ENDING; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL SHAPE; CHEMORECEPTORS; DENDRITES; DIPTERA; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; INTERNEURONS; NEUROPIL; OPTIC LOBE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547763217     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20396     Document Type: Article

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