Magnetic compass orientation in two strictly subterranean rodents: learned or species-specific innate directional preference?

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F12%3A10127660" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/12:10127660 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/12:43883691
Result on the web
<a href="http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/20/3649" target="_blank" >http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/20/3649</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.069625" target="_blank" >10.1242/jeb.069625</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Magnetic compass orientation in two strictly subterranean rodents: learned or species-specific innate directional preference?
Original language description
Evidence for magnetoreception in mammals remains limited. Magnetic compass orientation or magnetic alignment has been conclusively demonstrated in only a handful of mammalian species. The functional properties and underlying mechanisms have been most thoroughly characterized in Ansell's mole-rat, Fukomys anselli, which is the species of choice due to its spontaneous drive to construct nests in the southeastern sector of a circular arena using the magnetic field azimuth as the primary orientation cue. Because of the remarkable consistency between experiments, it is generally believed that this directional preference is innate. To test the hypothesis that spontaneous southeastern directional preference is a shared, ancestral feature of all African mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia), we employed the same arena assay to study magnetic orientation in two other mole-rat species, the social giant mole-rat, Fukomys mechowii, and the solitary silvery mole-rat, Heliophobius argenteocinereus. Bot
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EG - Zoology
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/IAA601410802" target="_blank" >IAA601410802: Biology of African mole-rats from mesic tropic areas.</a><br>
Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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