A precocious adult visual center in the larva defines the unique optic lobe of the split-eyed whirligig beetle Dineutus sublineatus

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Chan ^a   Strausfeld, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cicindela; Gyrinidae; Lobula plate; Motion detection; Optic lobe; Stemmata

Indexed keywords

CICINDELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DINEUTUS; DINEUTUS SUBLINEATUS; GYRINIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84873948413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-10-7     Document Type: Article

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