Behavioural discrimination of polarized light in the damselfish Chromis viridis (family Pomacentridae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3037-3046

  Mussi, Martina ^a   Haimberger, Theodore J ^a   Hawryshyn, Craig W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrimination; E vector; Fish behaviour; Fish vision; Polarization sensitivity; Visual behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INSTRUMENTATION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCIFORMES; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWIMMING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORIENTATION; PERCIFORMES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SWIMMING; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

CHROMIS CHROMIS; CHROMIS TERNATENSIS; CHROMIS VIRIDIS; POMACENTRIDAE;

EID: 25144450154     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01750     Document Type: Article

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