Magnets in guitarfish vestibular receptors
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
- Vol. 37 (1) , 86-88
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01965587
Abstract
Black magnetic particles are intermixed with white crystalline otoconia in the inner ear gravity receptors of a saltwater ray. Their size and composition suggest that they are multidomains of magnetite-ilmenite.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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