Biological bifocal lenses with image separation

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1482-1486

  Stowasser, Annette ^a   Rapaport, Alexandra ^a   Layne, John E ^a   Morgan, Randy C ^b   Buschbeck, Elke K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b Insectarium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; LENS; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; LARVA; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; RETINA; VISION, OCULAR;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; HYGROBIIDAE; PSEUDOBAHIA; THERMONECTUS MARMORATUS; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 77957857369     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.07.012     Document Type: Article

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