No role for direct touch using the pectoral fins, as an information gathering strategy in a blind fish

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 197, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 321-327

  Windsor, Shane ^a   Paris, James ^a   de Perera, Theresa Burt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active touch; Cave fish; Lateral line; Navigation; Sensory system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; FIN (ORGAN); FISH; FISH DISEASE; HYDRODYNAMICS; INNERVATION; LATERAL LINE SYSTEM; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWIMMING; TIME; TOUCH;

ANIMAL FINS; ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; HYDRODYNAMICS; LATERAL LINE SYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 79952993024     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-010-0615-4     Document Type: Article

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