AnyFish: An open-source software to generate animated fish models for behavioural studies

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 361-375

  Veen, Thor ^a   Ingley, Spencer J ^b   Cui, Rongfeng ^c   Simpson, Jon ^c   Asl, Mohammad Rahmani ^c   Zhang, Ji ^c   Butkowski, Trisha ^c   Li, Wen ^c   Hash, Chelsea ^d   Johnson, Jerald B ^b   Yan, Wei ^c   Rosenthal, Gil G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Lively Disposition   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Computer animation; Gasterosteus; Playback; Stickleback; Visual signals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879675194     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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