A chiton uses aragonite lenses to form images

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 665-670

  Speiser, Daniel I ^a   Eernisse, Douglas J ^b   Johnsen, Sönke ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHITON; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; EYE; EYE REFRACTION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; EYE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; POLYPLACOPHORA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTOMETRY; VISION, OCULAR; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ACANTHOPLEURA GRANULATA; ANIMALIA; POLYPLACOPHORA;

EID: 79955396559     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.033     Document Type: Article

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