Wiring a periscope - ocelli, retinula axons, visual neuropils and the ancestrality of sea spiders

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lehmann, Tobias ^a,b   Heß, Martin ^b   Melzer, Roland R ^a  

^a ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHELIA LANGI; ACHELIA VULGARIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE BODY; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEIS SPINOSA; EUPERIPATOIDES ROWELLI; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OCELLUS; PYCNOGONIDA; RETINULA AXON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUAL NEUROPIL; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; EYE; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARTHROPODA; EUPERIPATOIDES ROWELLI; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; ONYCHOPHORA; PYCNOGONIDA; XIPHOSURA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EYE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROANATOMY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84855964383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030474     Document Type: Article

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