Lateralization of trunk muscle volume, and lateralization of swimming turns of fish responding to external stimuli

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 113-124

  Heuts, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fish; Lateralization; Left right asymmetry; Muscle asymmetry; Startle response

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GOLDFISH; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; STARTLE REFLEX; SWIMMING; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 0032846148     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00056-X     Document Type: Article

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