ReviewAnimal cognition2020
Magnetoreception in Hymenoptera: importance for navigation.
Review in Animal cognition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Magnetoreception in Cataglyphis hellenica ants.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Article
- Broad presence of ferromagnetism in bees and relationship to phylogeny, natural history, and sociality.Science advances · 2026Article
- Birds may represent a useful animal model for studying human mental disorders.Acta neuropsychiatrica · 2025Review
- Neuromorphic encoding strategies for a noisy magnetic sense.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal computations in the insect celestial compass.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Cryptochrome magnetoreception: Time course of photoactivation from non-equilibrium coarse-grained molecular dynamics.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024Article
- Through an animal's eye: the implications of diverse sensory systems in scientific experimentation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Neuromorphic antennal sensory system.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Importance of magnetic information for neuronal plasticity in desert ants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The origins of light-independent magnetoreception in humans.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Review
- Insect magnetoreception: a Cry for mechanistic insights.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
- Scanning behaviour in ants: an interplay between random-rate processes and oscillators.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- The role of learning-walk related multisensory experience in rewiring visual circuits in the desert ant brain.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
- Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Impairs the Development of Honeybee (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Wood ants learn the magnetic direction of a route but express uncertainty because of competing directional cues.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- Exposure to Magnetic Fields Changes the Behavioral Pattern in Honeybees (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Behavioral performance and division of labor influence brain mosaicism in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
- Rotation of skylight polarization during learning walks is necessary to trigger neuronal plasticity inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Environmental sources of radio frequency noise: potential impacts on magnetoreception.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Review
- Low-level EMF effects on wildlife and plants: What research tells us about an ecosystem approach.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
The use of information provided by the geomagnetic field (GMF) for navigation is widespread across the animal kingdom. At the same time, the magnetic sense is one of the least understood senses. Here, we review evidence for magnetoreception in Hymenoptera. We focus on experiments aiming to shed light on the role of the GMF for navigation. Both honeybees and desert ants are well-studied experimental models for navigation, and both use the GMF for specific navigational tasks under certain conditions. Cataglyphis desert ants use the GMF as a compass cue for path integration during their initial learning walks to align their gaze directions towards the nest entrance. This represents the first example for the use of the GMF in an insect species for a genuine navigational task under natural conditions and with all other navigational cues available. We argue that the recently described magnetic compass in Cataglyphis opens up a new integrative approach to understand the mechanisms underlying magnetoreception in Hymenoptera on different biological levels.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.