Magnetoreception of directional information in birds requires nondegraded vision

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1259-1262

  Stapput, Katrin ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^b   Hoffmann, Klaus Peter ^b   Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a   Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EUROPE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LIGHT; MAGNETISM; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SENSATION; SONGBIRD; VISION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EUROPE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LIGHT; MAGNETICS; ORIENTATION; SENSATION; SONGBIRDS; VISION, OCULAR;

AVES; ERITHACUS RUBECULA;

EID: 77956171203     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.05.070     Document Type: Article

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