Projections to bimodal sites in the torus semicircularis of the toadfish, Opsanus tau

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 73-87

  Edds Walton, Peggy L ^a,b,c   Fay, Richard R ^a,b  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Marine Biological Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional hearing; Fish; Neurobiotin; Nucleus centralis; Nucleus ventrolateralis; Sensory integration; Teleosts

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BATRACHOIDIFORMES; FISH; HEARING; HYDRODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OPSANUS TAU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORUS SEMICIRCULARIS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BATRACHOIDIFORMES; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; PERCEPTION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STAINING AND LABELING;

BATRACHOIDIDAE GEN. SP.; LEMNISCUS; OPSANUS TAU; PISCES;

EID: 23844456080     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000085928     Document Type: Article

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