Compatibility of magnetic imprinting and secular variation

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Putman, Nathan F ^a   Lohmann, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; LETTER; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETICS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TURTLES;

ANIMALIA; CHELONIIDAE; LEPIDOCHELYS; LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPII; MIROUNGA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 47049110626     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.05.008     Document Type: Letter

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