Visual acuity and sensitivity increase allometrically with body size in butterflies.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Arthropod structure & development

• Publication date

  2009-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.asd.2008.08.003PMID 18809509
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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