Electric fish measure distance in the dark

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6705, 1998, Pages 890-894

  Von Der Emde, Gerhard ^a   Schwarz, Stephan ^a   Gomez, Leonel ^b,c   Budelli, Ruben ^c   Grant, Kirsty ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTRORECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SURFACE;

ANIMALS; DARKNESS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ORIENTATION; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032578758     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27655     Document Type: Article

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