Nocturnal vision and landmark orientation in a tropical halictid bee

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1309-1318

  Warrant, Eric J ^a   Kelber, Almut ^a   Gislén, Anna ^a   Greiner, Birgit ^a   Ribi, Willi ^b   Wcislo, William T ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b FL 9495   (Liechtenstein)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DARK ADAPTATION; DARKNESS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT; OPTIC LOBE; OPTICS; ORIENTATION; PANAMA; PHOTON; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEES; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DARK ADAPTATION; DARKNESS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OPTIC LOBE; OPTICS; ORIENTATION; PANAMA; PHOTONS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; VISION;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; HALICTIDAE; HALICTINAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MEGALOPTA; MEGALOPTA GENALIS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 4143088315     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.07.057     Document Type: Article

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