Interaction of magnetite-based receptors in the beak with the visual system underlying 'fixed direction' responses in birds

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a   Gehring, Dennis ^a   Denzau, Susanne ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^b   Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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[No Author keywords available]

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AVES; ERITHACUS RUBECULA;

EID: 77955479820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-7-24     Document Type: Article

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