Moon and sun compasses in sandhoppers rely on two separate chronometric mechanisms

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1420, 1999, Pages 749-752

  Ugolini, Alberto ^a   Melis, Claudia ^a   Innocenti, Riccardo ^a   Tiribilli, Bruno ^b   Castellini, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Moon compass; Orientation; Sandhoppers; Sun compass; Talitrus saltator

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; INSECT; MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; DARKNESS; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; INSECTA; SALTATOR; TALITRUS SALTATOR;

EID: 0033531641     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0700     Document Type: Article

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