Visual fields and eye morphology support color vision in a color-changing crab-spider

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 155-163

  Insausti, Teresita C ^a   Defrize, Jérémy ^a   Lazzari, Claudio R ^a   Casas, Jérôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Crab spider; Eye functional morphology; Misumena vatia; Vision; Visual field

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; COLOR; COLOR VISION; EYE; FEMALE; LIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RETINA; SPIDER; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; EYE; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SPIDERS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

ARANEAE; MISUMENA VATIA; THOMISIDAE;

EID: 84857690377     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: 18735495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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