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Magnetoreception in the Retina of the Domestic Pigeon Columbia livia: a Retinographic Search

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Original Russian Text © A.Yu. Rotov, R.V. Cherbunin, K.V. Kavokin, N.S. Chernetsov, M.L. Firsov, L.A. Astakhova, 2018, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2018, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 440–442.

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Rotov, A.Y., Cherbunin, R.V., Kavokin, K.V. et al. Magnetoreception in the Retina of the Domestic Pigeon Columbia livia: a Retinographic Search. J Evol Biochem Phys 54, 498–501 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S00220930180600121

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