Morphometry of otoliths in chicken macula lagena

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 404, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 83-86

  Li, Chang Xiang ^a   Gong, Ming ^a   Huang, Yi Na ^a   Tang, Zheng Quan ^a   Chen, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Chicken; Macula lagena; Morphometry; Otolith; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHINESE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GRAVITY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACOUSTIC MACULAE; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; VESTIBULE;

EID: 33745904758     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.05.046     Document Type: Article

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