Comparative visual function in four piscivorous fishes inhabiting Chesapeake Bay

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1751-1761

  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; Piscivore; Spectral sensitivity; Visual ecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VISION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; FLICKER FUSION; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRGINIA; VISION, OCULAR;

MORONE; MORONE SAXATILIS; PARALICHTHYS; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; PISCES; PLEURONECTOIDEI; POMATOMUS SALTATRIX; RACHYCENTRON CANADUM;

EID: 77951738010     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.038117     Document Type: Article

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