ArticleScientific reports2018
Magnetic map navigation in a migratory songbird requires trigeminal input.
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- Coral reef fish larvae show no evidence for map-based navigation after physical displacement.iScience · 2023Article
- Sense of doubt: inaccurate and alternate locations of virtual magnetic displacements may give a distorted view of animal magnetoreception ability.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Morphology, biochemistry and connectivity of Cluster N and the hippocampal formation in a migratory bird.Brain structure & function · 2022Article
- Prussian blue technique is prone to yield false negative results in magnetoreception research.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- In Search for the Avian Trigeminal Magnetic Sensor: Distribution of Peripheral and Central Terminals of Ophthalmic Sensory Neurons in the Night-Migratory Eurasian Blackcap (Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2022Article
- The discovery of the use of magnetic navigational information.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Review
- How might magnetic secular variation impact avian philopatry?Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
- A magnet attached to the forehead disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory songbird.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Fusion of wildlife tracking and satellite geomagnetic data for the study of animal migration.Movement ecology · 2021Article
- Corneal sensitivity is required for orientation in free-flying migratory bats.Communications biology · 2021Article
- A newly identified trigeminal brain pathway in a night-migratory bird could be dedicated to transmitting magnetic map information.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- No evidence for the use of magnetic declination for migratory navigation in two songbird species.PloS one · 2020Article
- Magnetoreception in birds.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Review
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Abstract
Recently, virtual magnetic displacement experiments have shown that magnetic cues are indeed important for determining position in migratory birds; but which sensory system(s) do they use to detect the magnetic map cues? Here, we show that Eurasian reed warblers need trigeminal input to detect that they have been virtually magnetically displaced. Birds with bilaterally ablated ophthalmic branches of the trigeminal nerves were not able to re-orient towards their conspecific breeding grounds after a virtual magnetic displacement, exactly like they were not able to compensate for a real physical displacement. In contrast, sham-operated reed warblers re-oriented after the virtual displacement, like intact controls did in the past. Our results show that trigeminally mediated sensory information is necessary for the correct function of the reed warblers' magnetic positioning system.
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