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SUBMITTER: Pakhomov A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086908 | biostudies-other | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20180810 1
Recently, virtual magnetic displacement experiments have shown that magnetic cues are indeed important for determining position in migratory birds; but which sensory system(s) do they use to detect the magnetic map cues? Here, we show that Eurasian reed warblers need trigeminal input to detect that they have been virtually magnetically displaced. Birds with bilaterally ablated ophthalmic branches of the trigeminal nerves were not able to re-orient towards their conspecific breeding grounds after ...[more]