Vision in drosophila: Seeing the world through a model's eyes

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2013, Pages 313-332

  Paulk, Angelique ^a   Sean Millard, S ^a   Van Swinderen, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

color; motion; neurophysiology; optomotor; pattern vision; visual behaviors

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MODELS, ANIMAL; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84873836609     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120811-153715     Document Type: Review

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