Sensitivity to dimethyl sulphide suggests a mechanism for olfactory navigation by seabirds

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 303-305

  Nevitt, Gabrielle A ^a   Bonadonna, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Dimethyl sulphide; Navigation; Orientation; Procellariiform seabird

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFIDE;

NAVIGATION; OLFACTION; ORIENTATION; SEABIRD;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMELLING;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 25444523272     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0350     Document Type: Article

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