ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2014
Magnetic field-driven induction of ZENK in the trigeminal system of pigeons (Columba livia).
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- Myths in magnetosensation.iScience · 2022Review
- Prussian blue technique is prone to yield false negative results in magnetoreception research.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Electrophysiology and the magnetic sense: a guide to best practice.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Review
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- Eyes are essential for magnetoreception in a mammal.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
- A newly identified trigeminal brain pathway in a night-migratory bird could be dedicated to transmitting magnetic map information.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- A high sensitivity ZENK monoclonal antibody to map neuronal activity in Aves.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Magnetoreception in birds.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Review
- Magnetic map navigation in a migratory songbird requires trigeminal input.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Lidocaine is a nocebo treatment for trigeminally mediated magnetic orientation in birds.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2018Article
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- Magnetic activation in the brain of the migratory northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe).Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2017Article
- The magnetic map sense and its use in fine-tuning the migration programme of birds.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2017Review
- Experienced migratory songbirds do not display goal-ward orientation after release following a cross-continental displacement: an automated telemetry study.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Migratory blackcaps can use their magnetic compass at 5 degrees inclination, but are completely random at 0 degrees inclination.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Weak Broadband Electromagnetic Fields are More Disruptive to Magnetic Compass Orientation in a Night-Migratory Songbird (Erithacus rubecula) than Strong Narrow-Band Fields.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
Magnetoreception remains one of the few unsolved mysteries in sensory biology. The upper beak, which is innervated by the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve (V1), has been suggested to contain magnetic sensors based on ferromagnetic structures. Recently, its existence in pigeons has been seriously challenged by studies suggesting that the previously described iron-accumulations are macrophages, not magnetosensitive nerve endings. This raised the fundamental question of whether V1 is involved in magnetoreception in pigeons at all. We exposed pigeons to either a constantly changing magnetic field (CMF), to a zero magnetic field providing no magnetic information, or to CMF conditions after V1 was cut bilaterally. Using immediate early genes as a marker of neuronal responsiveness, we report that the trigeminal brainstem nuclei of pigeons, which receive V1 input, are activated under CMF conditions and that this neuronal activation disappears if the magnetic stimuli are removed or if V1 is cut. Our data suggest that the trigeminal system in pigeons is involved in processing magnetic field information and that V1 transmits this information from currently unknown, V1-associated magnetosensors to the brain.
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