Bats use magnetite to detect the earth's magnetic field

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Holland, Richard A ^a,b   Kirschvink, Joseph L ^c   Doak, Thomas G ^a   Wikelski, Martin ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETITE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NONHUMAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; MAGNETISM; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; EPTESICUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHIROPTERA; EARTH (PLANET); FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; MAGNETICS; ORIENTATION;

EID: 45849103477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001676     Document Type: Article

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