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Magnetoreception in birds

Birds can use two kinds of information from the geomagnetic field for navigation: the direction of the field lines as a compass and probably magnetic intensity as a component of the navigational ‘map’. The direction of the magnetic field appears to be sensed via radical pair processes in the eyes, w...

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Autores principales: Wiltschko, Roswitha, Wiltschko, Wolfgang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6769297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31480921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0295