Two different types of light-dependent responses to magnetic fields in birds

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1518-1523

  Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a   Ritz, Thorsten ^b   Stapput, Katrin ^a   Thalau, Peter ^a   Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROPE; LIGHT; MAGNETISM; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; EUROPE; LIGHT; MAGNETICS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS;

AVES; ERITHACUS RUBECULA;

EID: 23944525112     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.07.037     Document Type: Article

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