Visual system alterations in white Zebra Finches

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-32

  Bredenkotter, Manfred ^a   Engelage, Jurgen ^b   Biscliof, Hans Joachim ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Albinism; Avian visual system; Cholera toxin subunit B; Irnmunohistology; Picrotoxin; Visually evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEATHER; GENETICS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECESSIVE GENE; RETINA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEATHERS; GENES, RECESSIVE; PHENOTYPE; RETINA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0029679734     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000113226     Document Type: Article

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