Migratory Reed Warblers Need Intact Trigeminal Nerves to Correct for a 1,000 km Eastward Displacement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Kishkinev, Dmitry ^a,c   Chernetsov, Nikita ^b   Heyers, Dominik ^a   Mouritsen, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; GEOGRAPHY; MAGNETISM; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; REED WARBLER; SHAM PROCEDURE; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; ANIMAL; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; AVES; CHELONIIDAE; PASSERI;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; GEOGRAPHY; ORIENTATION; SONGBIRDS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 84879490385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065847     Document Type: Article

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