Optic foramen morphology and activity pattern in birds

Anatomical Record

Volumn 292, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1827-1845

  Hall, Margaret I ^a   Iwaniuk, Andrew N ^b   Gutiérrez Ibáñez, Cristián ^c  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activity pattern; Optic foramen; Retinal summation; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CEPHALOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FUNDUS; FOSSIL; HYPOTHESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARK ADAPTATION; HEAD; OPTIC NERVE; ORBIT; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; SPHENOID BONE; VISION, OCULAR;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70449707744     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21007     Document Type: Article

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