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Olfaction Contributes to Pelagic Navigation in a Coastal Shark

How animals navigate the constantly moving and visually uniform pelagic realm, often along straight paths between distant sites, is an enduring mystery. The mechanisms enabling pelagic navigation in cartilaginous fishes are particularly understudied. We used shoreward navigation by leopard sharks (T...

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Autores principales: Nosal, Andrew P., Chao, Yi, Farrara, John D., Chai, Fei, Hastings, Philip A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26735492
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143758