ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2010
Avian magnetite-based magnetoreception: a physiologist's perspective.
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- Investigating the impact of weak geomagnetic fluctuations on pigeon races.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
- Cryptochromes in Mammals and Birds: Clock or Magnetic Compass?Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Article
- Brain-to-brain communication: the possible role of brain electromagnetic fields (As a Potential Hypothesis).Heliyon · 2021Review
- Magnetic compass of garden warblers is not affected by oscillating magnetic fields applied to their eyes.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Sensing Magnetic Fields with Magnetosensitive Ion Channels.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Very weak oscillating magnetic field disrupts the magnetic compass of songbird migrants.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2017Article
- Physiological origin of biogenic magnetic nanoparticles in health and disease: from bacteria to humans.International journal of nanomedicine · 2017Review
- A magnetic protein biocompass.Nature materials · 2016Article
- True navigation in migrating gulls requires intact olfactory nerves.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Magnetic particle-mediated magnetoreception.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2015Review
- Magnetically induced behaviour of ferritin corpuscles in avian ears: can cuticulosomes function as magnetosomes?Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2015Article
- No evidence for intracellular magnetite in putative vertebrate magnetoreceptors identified by magnetic screening.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Cattle on pastures do align along the North-South axis, but the alignment depends on herd density.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2013Article
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Abstract
It is now well established that animals use the Earth's magnetic field to perform long-distance migration and other navigational tasks. However, the transduction mechanisms that allow the conversion of magnetic field variations into an electric signal by specialized sensory cells remain largely unknown. Among the species that have been shown to sense Earth-strength magnetic fields, birds have been a model of choice since behavioural tests show that their direction-finding abilities are strongly influenced by magnetic fields. Magnetite, a ferromagnetic mineral, has been found in a wide range of organisms, from bacteria to vertebrates. In birds, both superparamagnetic (SPM) and single-domain magnetite have been found to be associated with the trigeminal nerve. Electrophysiological recordings from cells in the trigeminal ganglion have shown an increase in action potential firing in response to magnetic field changes. More recently, histological evidence has demonstrated the presence of SPM magnetite in the subcutis of the pigeon's upper beak. The aims of the present review are to review the evidence for a magnetite-based mechanism in birds and to introduce physiological concepts in order to refine the proposed models.
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