Bird navigation: What type of information does the magnetite-based receptor provide?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1603, 2006, Pages 2815-2820

  Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^a   Munro, Ursula ^b   Ford, Hugh ^c   Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Inclination compass; Magnetite; Magnetoreception; Migratory orientation; Pulse magnetization; Zosterops lateralis

Indexed keywords

MAGNETITE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC INCLINATION; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETITE; MIGRATION; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AVES; SILVEREYES ZOSTEROPS; ZOSTEROPS LATERALIS;

EID: 33751120963     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3651     Document Type: Article

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