Marine Turtles Use Geomagnetic Cues during Open-Sea Homing

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 126-133

  Luschi, Paolo ^a   Benhamou, Simon ^b   Girard, Charlotte ^c   Ciccione, Stephane ^d   Roos, David ^e   Sudre, Joël ^b   Benvenuti, Silvano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d Kelonia   (France)

^e IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INDIAN OCEAN; MAGNETISM; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MAGNETICS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING; TURTLES;

ANIMALIA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33846399703     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.11.062     Document Type: Article

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