Neural coding underlying the cue preference for celestial orientation

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

Volumn 112, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 11395-11400

  El Jundi, Basil ^a   Warrant, Eric J ^a   Byrne, Marcus J ^b   Khaldy, Lana ^a   Baird, Emily ^a   Smolka, Jochen ^a   Dacke, Marie ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Central complex; Dim light; Insect; Navigation; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASTRONOMY; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOON; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURAL CODING; NOCTURNAL SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAVANNA; SUN; VISUAL ORIENTATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; SUNLIGHT;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CUES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT; MOON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84941254233     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1501272112     Document Type: Article

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