Looking for food: Molecular neuroethology of invertebrate feeding behavior

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 826-832

  Tan, Eunice J ^a   Tang, Bor L ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33745925620     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01230.x     Document Type: Article

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