Movements of Rana catesbeiana tadpoles in weak current flows resemble a directed random walk

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2297-2307

  Schmidt, Brian P ^a   Knowles, Jeffrey M ^a   Simmons, Andrea Megela ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow sensing; Lateral line; Rana catesbeiana; Rheotaxis; Tadpole

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COBALT CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FLOW KINETICS; FROG; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARVA; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING; WALKING; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; COBALT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARVA; ORIENTATION; RANA CATESBEIANA; RHEOLOGY; SWIMMING; WALKING; WATER MOVEMENTS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; RANA CATESBEIANA;

EID: 79959547425     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.055392     Document Type: Article

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