The responses of midbrain lateral line units of the goldfish, Carassius auratus, to objects moving in the water

Zoology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 69-82

  Wojtenek, Winfried ^a,b   Mogdans, Joachim ^b   Bleckmann, Horst ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyprinidae; Hydrodynamics; Mechanoreception; Neuromast; Torus semicircularis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040942620     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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