Free-running locomotor activity rhythms in cave-dwelling catfishes, Trichomycterus sp., from Brazil (Teleostei, Siluriformes)

Biological Rhythm Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 329-335

  Trajano, Eleonora ^a   Menna Barreto, Luiz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

cave fishes; evolution; Free running; locomotor activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029983978     PISSN: 09291016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/brhm.27.3.329.12958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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