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Science 4 October 1963:
Vol. 142. no. 3588, pp. 69 - 70
DOI: 10.1126/science.142.3588.69
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Visual Responses in the Eye of the Dragon Fly

M. G. F. Fuortes 1

1 National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, Bethesda, Maryland

Responses to illumination recorded from cells in the eye of the dragonfly are similar to responses of cells in the eye of Limulus and are affected in the same manner by currents through the cell membrane. It appears probable that visual responses are brought about by the same processes in the two species.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Optics and Visual Physiology.
M. L. RUBIN (1965)
Arch Ophthalmol 73, 863-889
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