ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2013
Use of a light-dependent magnetic compass for y-axis orientation in European common frog (Rana temporaria) tadpoles.
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- Migratory birds are able to choose the appropriate migratory direction under dim yellow narrowband light.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Orientation and emigration of larval and juvenile amphibians: selected topics and hypotheses.Amphibia-reptilia : publication of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica · 2022Article
- Why is it so difficult to study magnetic compass orientation in murine rodents?Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Review
- Orientation and navigation inHerpetozoa · 2020Article
- Spontaneous magnetic alignment behaviour in free-living lizards.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2017Article
- Marsh frogs, Pelophylax ridibundus, determine migratory direction by magnetic field.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
We provide evidence for the use of a magnetic compass for y-axis orientation (i.e., orientation along the shore-deep water axis) by tadpoles of the European common frog (Rana temporaria). Furthermore, our study provides evidence for a wavelength-dependent effect of light on magnetic compass orientation in amphibians. Tadpoles trained and then tested under full-spectrum light displayed magnetic compass orientation that coincided with the trained shore-deep water axes of their training tanks. Conversely, tadpoles trained under long-wavelength (≥500 nm) light and tested under full-spectrum light, and tadpoles trained under full-spectrum light and tested under long-wavelength (≥500 nm) light, exhibited a 90° shift in magnetic compass orientation relative to the trained y-axis direction. Our results are consistent with earlier studies showing that the observed 90° shift in the direction of magnetic compass orientation under long-wavelength (≥500 nm) light is due to a direct effect of light on the underlying magnetoreception mechanism. These findings also show that wavelength-dependent effects of light do not compromise the function of the magnetic compass under a wide range of natural lighting conditions, presumably due to a large asymmetry in the relatively sensitivity of antagonistic short- and long-wavelength inputs to the light-dependent magnetic compass.
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