Adaptations for vision in dim light: Impulse responses and bumps in nocturnal spider photoreceptor cells (Cupiennius salei Keys)

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 193, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1081-1087

  Pirhofer Walzl, Karin ^a,b   Warrant, Eric ^b   Barth, Friedrich G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; LIGHT; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIDER; VISION;

ANIMALS; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; LIGHT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; SPIDERS; VISION;

EID: 35348898397     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-007-0263-5     Document Type: Article

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