The properties of the visual system in the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Arthropod structure & development

• Publication date

  2011-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.asd.2010.10.003PMID 21044895
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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