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

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

INTRODUCTION:Whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) are aquatic insects living on the water surface. They are equipped with four compound eyes, an upper pair viewing above the water surface and a lower submerged pair viewing beneath the water surface, but little is known about how their visual br...

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Main Authors: Lin, Chan, Strausfeld, Nicholas
Other Authors: Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Entomology & Insect Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
Language:en
Published: BioMed Central 2013
Subjects:
Gyrinidae
Optic lobe
Lobula plate
Motion detection
Stemmata
Cicindela
Online Access:Lin and Strausfeld Frontiers in Zoology 2013, 10:7 http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/10/1/7
http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610139
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/610139

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Lin and Strausfeld Frontiers in Zoology 2013, 10:7 http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/10/1/7
http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610139
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/610139

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