Photoreceptors and neural circuitry underlying phototaxis in insects

Fly

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 333-336

  Yamaguchi, Satoko ^a,c   Heisenberg, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color vision; Lamina; Medulla; Phototaxis; UV attractiveness; Visual behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 82855169192     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.5.4.16419     Document Type: Article

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