Behavioral plasticity and central regeneration of locomotor reflexes in the freshwater oligochaete, Lumbriculus variegatus. II: Ablation studies

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 259-268

  Lesiuk, Nalena M ^a,b   Drewes, Charles D ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Ectopic head; Giant axons; Neural plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANNELIDA; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS;

EID: 0035536854     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2001.tb00036.x     Document Type: Article

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