Testing for the presence of magnetite in the upper-beak skin of homing pigeons

BioMetals

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 197-203

  Tian, Lanxiang ^a   Xiao, Bo ^a   Lin, Wei ^a   Zhang, Shuyi ^b   Zhu, Rixiang ^a   Pan, Yongxin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Columbia livia; Homing pigeon; Low temperature magnetic property; Magnetite; Prussian Blue reaction; SQUID magnetometer

Indexed keywords

MAGNETITE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAK; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; ISOTHERM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEAK; COLUMBIDAE; FEMALE; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; MAGNETICS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SKIN; TEMPERATURE;

COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 34247153917     PISSN: 09660844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10534-006-9027-x     Document Type: Article

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