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In this account I want to outline some of the cardinal structural features of the insect visual system which have been resolved from neuroanatomical studies of two species of Dipterous insect, Musca domestica and Calliphora erythrocephala.
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Strausfeld, N.J. (1976). Mosaic Organizations, Layers, and Visual Pathways in the Insect Brain. In: Zettler, F., Weiler, R. (eds) Neural Principles in Vision. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66432-8_16
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