Magnetite defines a vertebrate magnetoreceptor

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6793, 2000, Pages 299-302

  Diebel, Carol E ^a,d   Proksch, Roger ^b,e   Green, Colin R ^c   Neilson, Peter ^b   Walker, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Digital Instruments   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d AUCKLAND WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

^e United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETITE; RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAINBOW TROUT; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; IRON; MAGNETICS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; OXIDES; RECEPTORS, SENSORY;

ANIMALIA; MYKISS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034691521     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35018561     Document Type: Article

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