Experimental evidence for a magnetic sense in Neotropical migrating butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 183-191

  Srygley, Robert B ^a,b   Dudley, Robert ^c   Oliveira, Evandro G ^d   Riveros, Andre J ^e,f  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MIGRATORY SPECIES; ORIENTATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; GATUN LAKE; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

APHRISSA STATIRA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE;

EID: 29444446537     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.04.013     Document Type: Article

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