Sensory system affects orientational strategy in a short-range spatial task in blind and eyed morphs of the fish, astyanax fasciatus

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 504-510

  Sutherland, Laura ^a   Holbrook, Robert I ^a   Burt De Perera, Theresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; SENSORY SYSTEM; TELEOST; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; ASTYANAX FASCIATUS; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS;

EID: 64949195984     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01630.x     Document Type: Article

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