True navigation and magnetic maps in spiny lobsters

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6918, 2003, Pages 60-63

  Boles, Larry C ^a   Lohmann, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPASSES (MAGNETIC); MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAPS; MARINE BIOLOGY; NAVIGATION;

MAGNETIC MAPS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; INVERTEBRATE; NAVIGATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION; INVERTEBRATE; LOBSTER; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATH ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; EYE; FLORIDA; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETICS; PALINURIDAE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; LOBSTER; PALINURIDAE; PANULIRUS; PANULIRUS ARGUS; PONTOPHILUS SPINOSUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037413685     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01226     Document Type: Article

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