Visual acuity and contrast sensitivity of adult zebrafish

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tappeiner, Christoph ^a   Gerber, Simon ^a   Enzmann, Volker ^a   Balmer, Jasmin ^a   Jazwinska, Anna ^b   Tschopp, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adult zebrafish; Optokinetic reflex; Optomotry; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

DANIO RERIO; MUS;

EID: 84861466195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-9-10     Document Type: Article

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