Maze learning and recall in a weakly electric fish, mormyrus rume proboscirostris boulenger (Mormyridae, Teleostei)

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 904-919

  Walton, Alice G ^a   Moller, Peter ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EEL; LEARNING; MEANDER; SHELTER; SYNERGISM;

MORMYRIDAE; MORMYRUS RUME; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 77956461871     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01807.x     Document Type: Article

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