Retinal vascularization in the grass goby, Zosterisessor ophiocephalus: A scanning electron-microscopic study of vascular corrosion casts

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 319-324

  Ota, Damijana ^a,b   Lahnsteiner, Franz ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b Marine Biological Laboratory   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Eye; Gobies; Hypoxic conditions; Morphological adaptation; Mud burrowing fish

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009741835     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00003101     Document Type: Article

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