Structure and function of the vertebrate magnetic sense

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6658, 1997, Pages 371-376

  Walker, Michael M ^a   Diebel, Carol E ^a   Haugh, Cordula V ^a   Pankhurst, Patricia M ^a,c   Montgomery, John C ^a   Green, Colin R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LEARNING; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; NOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAINBOW TROUT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; TRAVEL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; LEARNING; MAGNETICS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

ANIMALIA; MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031455753     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/37057     Document Type: Article

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