Visual Specializations in the Brain of the Split-Eyed Whirligig Beetle Dineutus sublineatus

Whirligig beetles are gregarious aquatic insects living on the water surface. They are equipped with two separate pairs of compound eyes, an upper aerial pair and a lower aquatic pair, but little is known about how their brains are organized to serve such an unusual arrangement. In the first study o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lin, Chan
Other Authors: Strausfeld, Nicholas J.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/333376