Compound eyes and retinal information processing in miniature dipteran species match their specific ecological demands

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4224-4229

  Gonzalez Bellido, Paloma T ^a,c   Wardill, Trevor J ^a,c   Juusola, Mikko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Invertebrate; Predatory behavior; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COENOSIA ATTENUATA; COMPOUND EYE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLY; LENS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DIPTERA; ECOLOGY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RETINA;

COENOSIA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952761759     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014438108     Document Type: Article

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