'Fixed direction'-responses of birds in the geomagnetic field

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 100-103

  Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a   Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

'Fixed direction' response; Inclination compass; Magnetic compass; Magnetite based receptors; Photoreceptors; Radical pair mechanism

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 66749167602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.7622     Document Type: Article

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