Magnetic field changes activate the trigeminal brainstem complex in a migratory bird

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 9394-9399

  Heyers, Dominik ^a   Zapka, Manuela ^a   Hoffmeister, Mara ^a   Wild, John Martin ^b   Mouritsen, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bird migration; Magnetic sense; Magnetite; Magnetoperception; Magnetoreception

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTEIN ZENK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRINCIPAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; WAKEFULNESS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; MAGNETICS; PERCEPTION; SONGBIRDS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

AVES; ERITHACUS RUBECULA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 77952682696     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907068107     Document Type: Article

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