A Novel Vertebrate Eye Using Both Refractive and Reflective Optics

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 108-114

  Wagner, Hans Joachim ^a   Douglas, Ron H ^b   Frank, Tamara M ^c   Roberts, Nicholas W ^d   Partridge, Julian C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EYE; FISH; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; SEA; VISION;

ANIMALS; EYE; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; VISION, OCULAR;

ANIMALIA; DOLICHOPTERYX LONGIPES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58349118796     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.061     Document Type: Article

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