Comparative Aspects of Visual System Development

The Primate Visual System: A Comparative Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 37-72

  Finlay, Barbara L ^a   Silveira, Luiz Carlos De Lima ^b   Reichenbach, Andreas ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

'evolvability'; 'passive stretching forces'; Basic organization; Emmetropization; Fovea centralis genesis; Gradient of maturation; Onset of retinogenesis; Primate visual system development; Vertebrate visual system evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889470749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470868112.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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