Vision and visual navigation in nocturnal insects

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2011, Pages 239-254

  Warrant, Eric ^a   Dacke, Marie ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

apposition compound eye; homing; neural summation; nocturnal vision; superposition compound eye

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DARKNESS; FLYING; HISTOLOGY; INSECT; NIGHT VISION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; DARKNESS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; INSECTS; NIGHT VISION; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 78650873090     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120709-144852     Document Type: Article

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