POSSIBLE MAGNETIC TRANSDUCER IN BIRDS

被引：75

作者：

YORKE, ED

机构：

[1] Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD 21228

来源：

JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY | 1979年 / 77卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1016/0022-5193(79)90140-1

中图分类号：

Q [生物科学];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

A growing body of evidence indicates that a variety of animals can sense the earth's magnetic field. The possibility that the transducer of the magnetic sense is a microscopic ferromagnet of the sort observed in certain bacteria is examined theoretically. Neither energy and response time considerations nor existing experimental evidence make such a transducer implausible. © 1979.

引用

页码：101 / 105

页数：5

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