Light-dependent magnetoreception in birds: Increasing intensity of monochromatic light changes the nature of the response

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a   Stapput, Katrin ^a   Bischof, Hans Joachim ^b   Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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[No Author keywords available]

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AVES; ERITHACUS RUBECULA;

EID: 33847733139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-4-5     Document Type: Article

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