Oscillating magnetic field disrupts magnetic orientation in Zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Keary, Nina ^a   Ruploh, Tim ^a   Voss, Joe ^a   Thalau, Peter ^b   Wiltschko, Roswitha ^b   Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^b   Bischof, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 72449164120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-6-25     Document Type: Article

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