Sensory Development and Its Relation to Habitat Change in Three Species of Sciaenids

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 270-284

  Poling, K R ^a,b   Fuiman, L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cynoscion nebulosus; Ecomorphology; Fish; Habitat; Mechanoreception; Micropogonias undulatus; Ontogeny; Sciaenops ocellatus; Vision

Indexed keywords

CYNOSCION NEBULOSUS; HALOPHILA; MICROPOGONIAS UNDULATUS; SCIAENIDAE; SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS;

LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; ENVIRONMENT; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MECHANORECEPTOR; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; LARVA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MECHANORECEPTORS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031610873     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006572     Document Type: Article

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