American cockroaches prefer four cardinal geomagnetic positions at rest

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 425-440

  Vácha, Martin ^a   Kvíčalová, Markéta ^a   Půžová, Tereza ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alignment; Cockroach; Insects; Magnetoreception; Positions; Quadrimodal; Resting

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BLATTARIA; HEXAPODA; PERIPLANETA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA;

EID: 77949552451     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579509X12580965484148     Document Type: Article

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