Visual systems and the role of vision in subterranean rodents: Diversity of retinal properties and visual system designs

Subterranean Rodents: News from Underground

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 129-160

  Němec, Pavel ^a,b   Cveková, Pavla ^a   Burda, Hynek ^c   Benada, Oldřich ^d   Peichl, Leo ^e  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69276-8_11     Document Type: Chapter

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