Comparative visual function in five sciaenid fishes inhabiting Chesapeake Bay

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3601-3612

  Horodysky, Andrij Z ^a   Brill, Richard W ^b   Warrant, Eric J ^c   Musick, John A ^a   Latour, Robert J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electroretinography; Fish; Flicker fusion frequency; Sciaenidae; Spectral sensitivity; Visual ecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FISH; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COLOR VISION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FISHES; FLICKER FUSION; LIGHT; VISION, OCULAR;

CYNOSCION NEBULOSUS; CYNOSCION REGALIS; LEIOSTOMUS XANTHURUS; MICROPOGONIAS UNDULATUS; PISCES; SCIAENIDAE; SCIAENOPS; SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS;

EID: 55949125858     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.023358     Document Type: Article

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