Morphological and behavioral limit of visual resolution in temperate (Hippocampus abdominalis) and tropical (Hippocampus taeniopterus) seahorses

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 351-360

  Lee, Hie Rin ^a,b   Bumsted Obrien, Keely M ^a,b  

^a Australian Government Australian Research Council   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fish; Fovea; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; HIPPOCAMPUS ABDOMINALIS; HIPPOCAMPUS TAENIOPTERUS; LENS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA ROD; SPECIES; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EYE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HEAD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SMEGMAMORPHA; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80055042651     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523811000149     Document Type: Article

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