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Evolution of the Visual System in Amphibians

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  1. Brain Research Institute, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Ursula Dicke & Gerhard Roth

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  1. Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Marc D. Binder

  2. Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Nobutaka Hirokawa

  3. Göttingen, Germany

    Uwe Windhorst

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Dicke, U., Roth, G. (2009). Evolution of the Visual System in Amphibians. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_3177

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