The forebrain of the blind cave fish astyanax hubbsi (characidae)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-38

  Gernot, Riedel ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Characidae; Fish; Morphology; Telencephalon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DARK ADAPTATION; FISH; FOREBRAIN; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; OLFACTORY BULB; OPTIC NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TELENCEPHALON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DARK ADAPTATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FISHES; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; OPTIC NERVE; PROSENCEPHALON; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 0030636625     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000112979     Document Type: Article

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