Hornets can fly at night without obvious adaptations of eyes and ocelli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Kelber, Almut ^a   Jonsson, Fredrik ^a   Wallén, Rita ^a   Warrant, Eric ^a   Kornfeldt, Torill ^a   Baird, Emily ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLYING; LIGHT ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; SPECIES COMPARISON; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WASP; ANIMAL; DARK ADAPTATION; EYE; HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOICA PALLENS; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MEGALOPTA GENALIS; VESPA CRABRO; VESPIDAE; VESPULA VULGARIS; XYLOCOPA TRANQUEBARICA;

ANIMALS; DARK ADAPTATION; EYE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; ORGAN SIZE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WASPS;

EID: 79960156827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021892     Document Type: Article

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