Animal navigation: the evolution of magnetic orientation.
Animals have several types of magnetic organ, often separately specialized for determining direction versus location. Recent results offer hints about how these once-unimaginable detectors may have evolved.
Gould
James L
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA. gould@princeton.edu
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D052203:Ferrosoferric Oxide; D008027:Light; D008280:Magnetics; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology*; D020308:Songbirds / Q000502:physiology
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