A web-based archive for topographic maps of retinal cell distribution in vertebrates: Invited Paper

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-95

  Collin, Shaun P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Area centralis; Birds; Fishes; Fovea; Ganglion cells; Horizontal streak; Mammals; Photoreceptors; Reptiles; Retinal topography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 36649002459     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2007.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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