The integration of locomotion and prey capture in vertebrates: Morphology, behavior, and performance

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-95

  Higham, Timothy E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRARCHIDAE; CICHLIDAE; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38749136721     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icm021     Document Type: Article

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