Fish otolith asymmetry: Morphometry and modeling

Hearing Research

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 1-11

  Lychakov, D V ^a   Rebane, Y T ^b   Lombarte, A ^c   Fuiman, L A ^d   Takabayashi, A ^e  

^a SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fish; Mathematical modeling; Otolith asymmetry; Sacculus; Utriculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GOLDFISH; GROWTH RATE; MASS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCULUS; TELEOST;

ANIMALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FISHES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SACCULE AND UTRICLE;

EID: 33747068831     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2006.03.019     Document Type: Article

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