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Identifying volatile organic compounds used for olfactory navigation by homing pigeons

Many bird species have the ability to navigate home after being brought to a remote, even unfamiliar location. Environmental odours have been demonstrated to be critical to homeward navigation in over 40 years of experiments, yet the chemical identity of the odours has remained unknown. In this stud...

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Autores principales: Zannoni, Nora, Wikelski, Martin, Gagliardo, Anna, Raza, Atif, Kramer, Stefan, Seghetti, Chiara, Wang, Nijing, Edtbauer, Achim, Williams, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32985543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72525-2