Escape responses in fish: Kinematics, performance and behavior

Fish Locomotion: An Eco-ethological Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 135-182

  Domenici, Paolo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1201/b10190     Document Type: Chapter

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