Magnetic pulse affects a putative magnetoreceptor mechanism

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 56-63

  Davila, Alfonso F ^a   Winklhofer, Michael ^a   Shcherbakov, Valera P ^b   Petersen, Nikolai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; MAGNETITE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; CRYSTAL; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC PULSE; MAGNETORECEPTOR; MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL MODEL; PIGEON; POLYMERIZATION; PREDICTION; ROTATION; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC CLUSTER;

AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 23044435202     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.049346     Document Type: Article

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