Ontogenetic improvement of visual function in the medaka Oryzias latipes based on an optomotor testing system for larval and adult fish

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-10

  Carvalho, Paulo S M ^a,b,c   Noltie, Douglas B ^b   Tillitt, Donald E ^c  

^a Federal Agency for Improvement of Research and Teaching Personnel (CAPES)   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; ONTOGENY; VISION;

ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES;

EID: 0036381794     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3028     Document Type: Article

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