Visual but not trigeminal mediation of magnetic compass information in a migratory bird

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7268, 2009, Pages 1274-1277

  Zapka, Manuela ^a   Heyers, Dominik ^a   Hein, Christine M ^a   Engels, Svenja ^a   Schneider, Nils Lasse ^a   Hans, Jörg ^a   Weiler, Simon ^a   Dreyer, David ^a   Kishkinev, Dmitry ^a   Wild, J Martin ^b   Mouritsen, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN; DATA SET; IRON; LESION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MIGRATORY SPECIES; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT; VISION; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOPHYSICS; BIRD; BRAIN NERVE CELL; MAGNETIC FIELD; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VISION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MAGNETICS; ORIENTATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; SONGBIRDS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

AVES; ERITHACUS RUBECULA; PASSERI;

EID: 70350648973     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08528     Document Type: Article

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