Ontogeny of visual and mechanosensory structure and function in atlantic menhaden Brevoortia tyrannus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2619-2629

  Higgs, Dennis M ^a,b   Fuiman, Lee A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Brevoortia tyrannus; Functional morphology; Larva; Mechanoreception; Menhaden; Ontogeny; Sensory development; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000291880     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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