Zebrafish on the move: Towards a behavior-genetic analysis of vertebrate vision

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 451-455

  Baier, Herwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BLINDNESS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 0033862926     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(00)00116-1     Document Type: Review

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