Lunar orientation in a beetle

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2004-02-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2003.2594PMID 15101694PMCID PMC1691606
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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