Vision in the nocturnal wandering spider Leucorchestris arenicola (Araneae: Sparassidae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 816-823

  Nørgaard, Thomas ^a,d   Nilsson, Dan Eric ^b   Henschel, Joh R ^c   Garm, Anders ^b   Wehner, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Gobabeb Training and Research Centre Walvis Bay   (Namibia)

^d SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electroretinogram; Nocturnal navigation; Spectral sensitivity; Spider navigation; Temporal summation; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DARKNESS; DESERT CLIMATE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; NAMIBIA; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIDER; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DARKNESS; DESERT CLIMATE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; NAMIBIA; ORIENTATION; SPIDERS; VISION; VISUAL FIELDS;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ARENICOLA; CTENIDAE; LEUCORCHESTRIS; SPARASSIDAE;

EID: 42149132723     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.010546     Document Type: Article

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