No role for direct touch using the pectoral fins, as an information gathering strategy in a blind fish.
Blind Mexican cave fish (Astyanax fasciatus) lack a functional visual system and have been shown to sense their environment using a technique called hydrodynamic imaging, whereby nearby objects are detected by sensing distortions in the flow field of water around the body using the mechanosensory la...
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| التنسيق: | Journal article |
| اللغة: | English |
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2011
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