ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2016
Light-dependent magnetoreception in birds: the crucial step occurs in the dark.
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- Migratory birds are able to choose the appropriate migratory direction under dim yellow narrowband light.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Upper bound for broadband radiofrequency field disruption of magnetic compass orientation in night-migratory songbirds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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- Cryptochrome and quantum biology: unraveling the mysteries of plant magnetoreception.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Cryptochromes in mammals: a magnetoreception misconception?Frontiers in physiology · 2023Review
- Driven Radical Motion Enhances Cryptochrome Magnetoreception: Toward Live Quantum Sensing.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2022Article
- Radical triads, not pairs, may explain effects of hypomagnetic fields on neurogenesis.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Observations about utilitarian coherence in the avian compass.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Broadband 75-85 MHz radiofrequency fields disrupt magnetic compass orientation in night-migratory songbirds consistent with a flavin-based radical pair magnetoreceptor.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
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- Cryptochrome magnetoreception: four tryptophans could be better than three.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Article
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Abstract
The Radical Pair Model proposes that the avian magnetic compass is based on spin-chemical processes: since the ratio between the two spin states singlet and triplet of radical pairs depends on their alignment in the magnetic field, it can provide information on magnetic directions. Cryptochromes, blue light-absorbing flavoproteins, with flavin adenine dinucleotide as chromophore, are suggested as molecules forming the radical pairs underlying magnetoreception. When activated by light, cryptochromes undergo a redox cycle, in the course of which radical pairs are generated during photo-reduction as well as during light-independent re-oxidation. This raised the question as to which radical pair is crucial for mediating magnetic directions. Here, we present the results from behavioural experiments with intermittent light and magnetic field pulses that clearly show that magnetoreception is possible in the dark interval, pointing to the radical pair formed during flavin re-oxidation. This differs from the mechanism considered for cryptochrome signalling the presence of light and rules out most current models of an avian magnetic compass based on the radical pair generated during photo-reduction. Using the radical pair formed during re-oxidation may represent a specific adaptation of the avian magnetic compass.
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