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Henrik Mouritsen ()
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Henrik Mouritsen: Henrik Mouritsen is at the Research Center for Neurosensory Sciences and the Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften, Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany.

Nature, 2012, vol. 484, issue 7394, 320-321

Abstract: The idea that bird orientation is guided by magnetic-sensing structures in the animals' beaks has been challenged by the suggestion that the iron-containing cells are macrophages, which have no link to the brain. See Letter p.367

Date: 2012
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