Amplitude and dynamics of polarization - plane signaling in the central complex 1 of the locust brain
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of the locust brain 2 Tobias Bockhorst and Uwe Homberg* 3 4 1 Animal Physiology, Department of Biology, Philipps University, Karl-von-Frisch-Straße 8, 35032 5 Marburg, Germany 6 7 8 9 *to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected], phone: 10 +49 (0)64212823402, fax: +49 (0)64212828941 11 12 13 14 15 Authors‘ contributions: 16 Tobias Bockhorst and Uwe Homberg designed the research and wrote the paper. Tobias Bockhorst 17 designed the experimental procedures, carried out the experiments and conceptualized as well as 18 performed data analysis. 19 20
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تاریخ انتشار 2015