Space-saving advantage of an inverted retina

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2318-2321

  Kröger, Ronald H H ^a   Biehlmaier, Oliver ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evolution; Fish; Vertebrate; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LENS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; EVOLUTION; EYE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RETINA; RETINAL NEURONS; VISION, OCULAR; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 68649114145     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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