Micromagnetic aspects of magnetoreception of homing pigeons based on iron minerals

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 882, Issue , 2007, Pages 755-757

  Stahl, Branko ^a   Fleissner, Gerta ^a   Fleissner, Günther ^a   Holub krappe, Elisabeth ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Maghemite platelets; Magnetic field sense; Magnetoreception; Micromagnetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947392947     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2644654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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